[afraidfortherepublic]

God Bless this woman and God Bless her mother, and especially her grandmother. May she R.I. P.

[FourPeas]

Her grandmother left her an amazing legacy. What a blessing!

Then, there's this:

She couldn't be more ordinary, and yet, she had an extraordinary grasp of common sense.

Many times I've observed this in my own family, many of whom are people who live off the land. Their way of life fosters knowledge frequently absent in more "modern" lifestyles.

[farming pharmer]

One of my co-workers, a woman originally from Szechuan province told me of these horror stories.

A young woman in my co-worker's village became pregnant with her second child. Since she was a government employee, so an example had to be made of her. Government agents came to the village searching for her. She tried to hide, but they found her, held her down, injected with a substance and she aborted the baby some days later. The government agents then took her away, never to be seen in that village again.

[Ditter]

We adopted 3 infants. One in ‘63 one in’66 and one in ‘ 72. If they had been born a few years later God only knows if they would have survived.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I visited China in 1983 just as they were implementing the 1 child policy.

The Chinese were most eager to talk to American tourists. One of them asked me about the one child policy (in a whisper). I pulled a picture of my 4 kids out of my pocket and he admired it. I told him that I was an only child and really regretted not having brothers, or sisters, but it was a result of the privations of the depression. However, after WWII the US birth rate really soared. I assured him it would probably change down the road.

Even in 1983, there were exceptions to the one child policy for farmers — just as farmers could have an extra business on the side. At that time, the farmers were rich, while the educated classes (accountants, teachers, etc.) were poor and locked into low salaried positions and lived in crowded apartment blocks in the city.

In 2015 in Wisconsin we are quite well acquainted with a Chinese couple who work at a Chinese restaurant here in town. She just gave birth to her 3rd child — a boy. She already has 2 girls, about 8 years apart. One born in China and one born here. Even though she goes back to Shanghai every couple of years to visit her family, I wonder if she realizes that she would never have been allowed to keep #3 in China?

[Impy]

I hope one day the communists are dragged out into the street and shot like the pigs they are.