Chinese Parents Sell Children To Pay For Video Game Addiction (VIDEO)

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.

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.

Comments

[bgangwer1981]

05:49 PM on 07/29/2011

I dont understand. How can you be addicted to somthing like a game. I can understand an addiction to drugs, booze, sex, extream sports, and stuff like that. They cause dopeamiens in our brains making us feel great. How can a viedo game do this. I am at a total loss here. Oh yea to all english pros please for give my spelling and grammer.

[i3igpete]

09:40 AM on 07/29/2011

TSK TSK, huffpost should fact check better. this is the exact same chinese news article that was printed 20 years ago describing the evils of "90's love". Translate this article to english and you'll even see the names are the same.

http://lady.china.com/s/rdht/11103638/20110722/16663060.html

[Laura Emerick]

06:48 PM on 07/29/2011

i think you will find it was put up online a week ago, and if you read all through 90 is thrown in randomly.

[kcrace]

10:31 PM on 07/28/2011

Who bought the children? And please tell me they will also be locked up.

[a10flatliner]

06:58 PM on 07/28/2011

Video addiction.. Asia's replacemnt for Opium?

[VapidWorldOrder]

04:26 PM on 07/28/2011

Wow, if only we could sell children for playing too many video games, they would listen next time you told them to turn that thing off and go outside and play...type 2 diabetes rates would tumble! Hey this might be the solution for our health care system that is being over taxed by morbidly obese children and adults!

[KarlaElisa]

01:19 PM on 07/28/2011

i thought they only were licensed to have one kid. how'd these people get away w/ crankin out 3?

[IfIonlyknew]

12:35 PM on 07/28/2011

This is probably the best thing for the children.

[Relpo Miraculous]

10:40 AM on 07/28/2011

Chinese children make a delicious soup, especially the young boymeat.

[IfIonlyknew]

12:42 PM on 07/28/2011

But don't let them wok your dog.

[NonPrawf]

02:17 AM on 07/28/2011

The grandma was okay with the selling of the female child, but grandma drew the line when they sold the baby boy.

Makes. Perfect. Sense.

[Silbermond]

01:07 AM on 07/28/2011

Totally recommend to do the same thing LOL

[JessCostello]

09:42 PM on 07/27/2011

The Oslo mass murderer was also an avid gamer. He played World of Warcraft and Modern Warfare 2.

[Manuel Coichy]

10:48 PM on 07/27/2011

He must have been really good at MW2, how does any one take 72 lives that easily?

[kwyang]

09:33 PM on 07/27/2011

I think they had it all wrong. Invest a few more years into those babies and they can put them to work farming gold and selling that! Revenue stream, people!

[MikoRose]

08:28 PM on 07/27/2011

What do you expect from a world of people that do not believe in controlling themselves.

[sunoftime]

05:43 PM on 07/27/2011

First it was babies making babies. Now it's babies selling babies...to play video games. Sheesh!

[thebodach1]

04:22 PM on 07/27/2011

I need to create a website called Goodnews.com and put nothing but good news all day (if that's possible in this world). It sickens me to hear about this kind of stuff that happens to children.