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- Featured News: Adoption Laws Discriminate
- The Suicide of a Female Advanced Placement Student
- WWII War Prostitutes Speak Out
- Featured News: Adoption Laws Discriminate
Some women's groups propose that the period for denying
adoption of illegitimate children be extended from 1 to 6
years, even indefinitely. According to the present laws, a
husband can legally adopt a child by him outside the marriage
at any time. For a wife, however, if she has a child outside
the marriage, she has to have her husband adopt the child
first. As a result, some women fall victims of their
spouses' threat or retaliation. (1998.9.25 China Times)
- The Suicide of a Female Advanced Placement Student
An advance placement student at Taichung Girls' High School
jumped off a building because of an affair with a married
man. Soon thereafter, the man also killed himself by jumping
into a river and drowned. (1998.9.17, 9.18, 9.19 China
Times)
- WWII War Prostitutes Speak Out
"Grandma's Secret," the first documentary about WWII war
prostitutes premiered recently. In this film, 13 old women
testified how they were maltreated by the Japanese Army,
truly representing some of the sufferings of women during
the War. (1998.9.23 China Times)
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