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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/26/chinese-parents-sell-children-gaming_n_910288.html?ir=Canada
Chinese Parents Sell Children To Pay For Video Game Addiction
Gaming addiction is bad, but this is downright wrong.
A Chinese couple, Li Lin and Li Juan, is being accused of apparently selling all three of their children in order to pay for playing video games at internet cafes, according to the southern Chinese paper Sanxiang City News. ABC News Radio, who picked up the story, reported that the couple, both of whom were under 21, met in an Internet cafe in 2001.
According to Game Politics, things began to go bad in 2009, when they decided they would sell their second child, a girl, for $500. When that worked, they allegedly went back to see what they could get for their first child, a boy.
He brought in $4,600 (30,000 RMB).
So, according to ABC, when the couple had their third child, they repeated the process, again raking in another $4,600.
The sales came to light when the father's mother finally turned them in. According to Sanxiang City News, the parents claimed they didn't know they were breaking the law.
This is far and away not the first time gaming addiction has resulted in poor parenting. Earlier this year, an Osaka, Japan mother was accused of killing her three-year-old, because the child threw out her gaming system.
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The condition is also just as likely to develop in children as adults. One study showed that as many as 1 in 10 children are at risk to become video game addicts.
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They don't say which games.
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Have to do whatever it takes to get that new tier of gear!
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I thought they were limited to 1 child, where did the other 2 they have, come from?
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I have a difficult time caring about what happens in a country like China, although I'm sure there's no lack of neglect and/or child abuse occuring elsewhere due to parents being absorbed in video games or even WoW.
But, there's all kinds of crappy parents period and it's not like video games are at fault or the only way things break down. Some people watch TV all day, have (other) addictions, and/or just don't take care of their responsibilities.
Some people just shouldn't spawn. It seems like people feel obligated or feel they have a right to spew children even though most aren't remotely qualified to properly take care of another human being.
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"According to Sanxiang City News, the parents claimed they didn't know they were breaking the law."
Okay that made me laugh.
Because, you know, if it hadn't been explicitly illegal, it would made it okay to sell your kids for gaming.
"Gaming addiction is bad, but this is downright wrong."
Thanks to the article for clarifying that this is wrong. I was on the fence.
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kyrv posted:
"Gaming addiction is bad, but this is downright wrong."
Thanks to the article for clarifying that this is wrong. I was on the fence.
lol
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China actually has a huge problem that will manifest itself in the coming years, and that problem is a lack of females.
Not that it has anything to do with the thread, just throwing it out there.
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Now that a price has been set, I wonder what the market will bear for Canadian children?
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The kids are better off.. I could probably point fingers at more than a few people here who completely ignored their kids for this silly game. Its not China.. its people in general. 
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Are they really trying to blame video games for a society that has been killing off female children for as long as I can remember?
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Killing them is fine, you just can't sell them.
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Whatever game they payed for, better not have been WoW. That would have been a waste of cash/children ^^.
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Why have a child when you can achieve 100 non-combat pets?!
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The only reason they got in trouble was because the sale of their children wasn't taxed. Just sayin'.
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