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China's "one child policy has been in effect since the late 1970's was reviewed and renewed recently. The policy limits urban couples to one child and rural families to two to control the population and conserve natural resources. Beijing says it has helped prevent 400 million births and has aided the nation's rapid economic development.
Zhang Weiqing, minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission believes that this policy (along with education campaigns, sex selective abortions and rewards) will also solve China's gender imbalance within 10 to 15 years
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One day, when we are watching India eclipse China forever, I hope that some of the idiots in China who think this policy is a good idea are still alive and kicking themselves. It's like Mao Great Leap Forward. The consequences will be bad. China needs to learn to leave well enough alone! -
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China is advanced in understanding that mother earth will only support so many life forms at one time, including human life forms, I like their policys because I like to think all humans should expect a certain decent quality of life, full of natural and economic resources. It would be nice if China avoided sex selective abortions by offering these children up to international adoption to financialy and moraly fit parents. Financial and Moral fitness being in line with China's ethical standards. Some day sex selection might be able to take place before conception. Probably in China first. Right now it is my understanding that only handicapped children were open to international adoption. If that were true it sure would be nice if children with nothing wrong with them than a un needed gendar could go to a place with enough natural and financial resources to provide for them. I also hope that after China has the population inline with what they can support, that someday couples can once again have the luxury of two children. What is the current gendar imbalance? -
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I understand that China is overpopulated, and that they feel that they need to limit its growth. I'm not so sure that it's going to help balance gender since the possiblity of having a boy or a girl is 50-50. So there could be one girl for every boy, two girls for every boy, 5 girls for every 6 boys, and so on. Since specific gender is something with a 50% chance, the proportions of gender going one way or the other can occur in pretty much any be anything. -
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It will lead to a much greater imbalance as the Chinese are very drawn
to having a male heir in their family, so many times the girl is sent
overseas to another family via adoption, or aborted, or put into a
convent. While the couple continues to work to get the son that they
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if anything, it causes a gender imbalance because male heirs are so important that females are literally thrown away. even without child limitation laws, highly patriarchal societies function that way regardless. the question should really be, "will it solve the overpopulation China currently faces" -
Exactly. In China, there persists an antiquated belief that boys will do more work on a farm. Most people work in factories nowadays. Also, the belief holds that boys will support their elders in old age. In China's booming, authoritarian-driven fast-paced economy, nobody's going to stop and spend hard-earned Yuan on some old people. But the government seems to have bypassed that myth back in the Cultural Revolution, when many aspects of an earlier China were either abandoned en masse, or outlawed, yet this idea persisted. Then, when the One-Child Policy was enacted, people, with old beliefs in mind, when it came time to have their one child, discarded female infants in favor of male infants. Now, because of that there are 117 males to 100 females. In 2020, it is estimated by some that there may be 30 million more men than women in China.
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If they let people have more kids than maybe things would even out. It definitely will not even out by having one child per family, because if 60% of the parents have a boy than it will be uneven. If they let people have more than one then one family can have two boys & a diff family can have two girls. It sounds pretty even to me. :]
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I don't think any government should have the right to regulate the number of children a person has. They also have no right to force an abortion on anyone.