Posted on 03/09/2003 9:16:35 AM PST by Enemy Of The State
Marital Problems, Domestic Abuse Plague China's Women
Unhappy marriage and domestic violence are the two most prevalent problems plaguing today's Chinese women, according to the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF).
The ACWF received some 300,000 letters, visits and phone calls seeking assistance during each of the past two years. Half of those complaints were from people suffering from marital and family-related problems.
The organization also witnessed an increase in the number of domestic violence complaints.
According to senior ACWF official Deng Li, domestic violence has become a pervasive social problem in recent years, seriously endangering women's psychological and physical security and health.
Although China amended marital legislation in 2001 to guarantee family and marital rights, it still takes time and effort to enforce the relevant laws and regulations, said Deng.
At present, the police, the women's federations and residents throughout China are working together to set up an effective anti-domestic violence mechanism to better protect women's rights.
Government mandates cannot change human nature!
I dont agree with the means by which they enforce it, (forced abortion, sterilization) but what else can they do? They have a population of 1 billion + and a large portion of that population lives in deep poverty. If China is ever going to do anything to help her people, The Chinese govt. and the people need to get control of their population.
Highly doubtful. What would a war accomplish in that instance?
I can tell you from personal experience, the ratio of men to women is seriously out of whack (no doubt due to their long practice of killing females at birth) and it is already difficult in some areas for young men to find available women to wed with. My fiance is native to China and the men there sure dont appreciate seeing a foreigner coming in and taking one of their women. Sometimes you can feel the stares burning through the back of your head as you walk down the street in certain areas.
A lot has changed now, women in china are not allowed to have tests done to determine the sex of the fetus before it is born, this of course is done in attempt to discourage the discrimination against female children. Now it is actually preferrable to have a female child because the family will not have to pay the debt when their child wishes to marry and a handsome price can be attained for a beautiful bride.
In a war men get killed.
Yes, thats true but the Chinese are not going to start a civil war over that.
Who said anything about a civil war?
Grow a brain before you start typing. I was questioning why you jumped to civil war from the previous poster's mention of war. The thesis that China could absorb horrendous loses of men in a foreign war and actually improve the demographic makeup of their society has been discussed several times on FreeRepublic.
Typical response from a boob that probably has no real understanding of Chinese culture or way of thinking
In either case be it war or civil war, the Chinese are not going to put themselves in that situation in order to incur a depletion in their population. Just because it has been discussed here on FR before doesnt mean that makes any more sense. There are far too many other consequences to consider.
Ahh yes. You totally misunderstood what another poster is inferring. I point out politely that in a war the the demographics of China would be brought more in line with nature and solve a growing and serious social problem. You then bring a civil war into the thread which further shows you didn't have a grasp as to what the other person was inferring. I then ask you who said anything about civil war because I thought I might have missed something. (I was wrong, you were just clueless.) You then FLAME me out of the blue with a smartass reply inferring I haven't read the thread when it was YOU who was operating on a false premise! GROW A BRAIN BEFORE YOU HIT THE POST KEY.
If your observational skills in China equal your analytical skills on this thread, anything you say is suspect. If your social skills in public are commensurate with your behavior here on this thread, I understand why you went to China.
Take your thoroughly unpleasant attitude and go back.
The inference is that war is a lot less costly to a country with an imbalance like this. It could even be beneficial demographically. China could absorb 50 times the losses that America could and have less fallout. When China marched off to war with India in some battles they had 10 men to a gun. They would follow the guy with the gun and pick it up when he was shot. In Korea our troops killed Chinese till they ran out of ammunition and then fell back until they got more ammo where everything was repeated. This type of enemy always must be watched.
As I said, you have no understanding of Chinese culture or philosopy. They are muc more intelligent than yourself and think much farther in advance.
The Chinese Communist Party and government do not embodies the culture and philosophy of China as a whole. Tiananmen Square was not a hallucination.
Well, I can't disagree with you there. One of my best friends took part in the Tiananmen Square Massacre as a schollar subjecting herself to a hunger strike. Her best friend was killed.
The Chinese learned a lot from that day...if you want to continue that discussion, Ill be happy to.
Like you, I don't think it is in China's interest to fight a war with us. China is trying to come into the world as a whole. However I do believe that China could absorb more losses than we can inflict (short of nuclear) and laugh at us. This imbalance of the sexes makes it even more so. It might destroy them financially but for the vast majority of China nothing would drastically change. They know it and know we know it. We need to remember this when dealing with them. They have a lot to lose but they are willing to lose it. They think of time in a way we don't or can't.
T.S. was a PR nightmare but it proves one thing. China will do whatever is necessary to maintain control. They are not stupid however. Their leaders are very astute and learn from their mistakes. They would do it with much more finesse now but the end result would be the same. They weren't prepared for the world press then. They are now.
I would love to see China. I think it would give one a whole new view on the world.
That aside, to call the TS massacre a PR nightmare is to say the least. They could never get away with such a move again. Such an action now would cost them their entire economy as all foreign investment would more than likely cease to exist or at least make a mass exodus.
Our main threat from China comes in educating their young and allowing them to maintain such an edge on our economy. They are without a doubt following Sun Tzu by the book. If you like to keep up on politics with China and the US, I would suggest a book by Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro called "The coming Conflict with China". It is a most impressive read and it solely relies on the facts that exist.
Ive spent quite a bit of time there being that my fiance is from one of the northern provinces there where her uncle holds a fairly high position in the government. Upon completion of my studies at the University I plan to spend a year teaching English over there in order to bring my speaking ability of Chinese up to better speed. That is if I dont return to the Marines before hand.
You certainly make a valid point too about their ability to handle the press now. One of my good friends in Beijing is a PR rep and they have certainly become quite the little spin masters.
Regards!
EOTS
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