Posted on 01/23/2015 9:17:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
When China announced it was relaxing its one-child policy in late 2013, marketing director Kang Lu chatted with her husband about whether they wanted a second baby.
“But given our current circumstances, we quickly abandoned the idea,” she said. “It wasn’t a tough decision.”
They weren’t alone. So far, a good number of Chinese families have been less than enthusiastic about the partial relaxation of the policy, choosing to stick with one child, often for practical and economic reasons, but also because decades of government propaganda have convinced them that one child really is best.
Experts say this only underlines a looming demographic crisis in China: low fertility rates, a rapidly aging population and a shrinking labor force will inevitably put immense strains on the economy in the decades ahead, and on the government’s ability to pay people’s pensions. It is so severe a problem, some experts predict it could ultimately threaten the legitimacy of Communist Party rule.
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If this news is true, then India will be the most populous country in the world within one generation.
Perhaps Christian Chinese will have more kids, if allowed.
Of course he'll breeze over the fact that the government was killing the "more then one" babies.
It’s going to lead to a male/female imbalance, and a spoiled generation.
I was in China last year, and our tourguide said that the one-child policy was pretty popular, because China had been overpopulated in relation to its wealth only a generation before. She was in her early 40’s, and remembered ration books.
Of course, most policies stay too long and become counterproductive in time.
As Mark Steyn says, “China will get old before it gets rich.”
We spent some time in China when our son was around 10 years old (my husband was there on a work assignment for a few months, so we tagged along.)
One day we were at an outdoor skating rink, and a Chinese teenager came and sat with me and ask if she could practice her English with me. Of course I agreed.
A few minutes later my kid fell in the skating rink...the rink was concrete. He got up, looked my way and showed me his hands while still in the rink. A few scrapes, but I yelled, “You’re okay...keep skating.”
The Chinese teenager immediately commented that American moms are a lot different than Chinese moms. She said a Chinese mom would have rushed over to make sure he was okay...and she blamed the only child policy on this over protection.
After the fact my husband and I had a laugh because our kid is an only child.
I have long thought that the Chinese and Russians might have to get over their long running dislike of each other. China aborts all their girls due to the one child policy, and Russian men have a dismally low life expectancy due to a number of factors. The growing imbalance of the genders in the two half-free-market, half-commie nations may make for some strange bedfellows, literally.
India’s problem isn’t that they have too few children, only too few daughters.
Families of 2.5 tend to be 1 girl if any and 1.5 boys. Those surplus males are potential trouble.
Are you referring to India, or China?
For both India and China, surplus males are a problem.
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