‘He wants a son’: heavily pregnant mother of 4 girls in China says husband is divorcing her for having a daughter again
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A 25-year-old woman in China expecting her fifth child has shocked mainland social media after alleging her husband wants a divorce because he believes their next baby will be another daughter.
According to the woman, who is eight months pregnant, her husband moved out of their apartment three months ago and has since refused to pay rent and told her they should divorce “as soon as possible”, Jiupai News reported.
The woman, surnamed Hu, works in an spectacles workshop in Linhai in Zhejiang province in eastern China.
Hu said she and her husband, whose identity was not revealed in the report, moved to the city from a rural area of Guizhou in southwestern China seeking work.
Hu said she has been with her husband since she was 15 years old and gave birth to their first daughter in 2014 when she was 17 years old.