"In 2000, I went to a village. As I passed a narrow lane, I heard a child shouting, "Mama, come down; mama, come down." When I went into the house, I saw the child’s mother had hanged herself. The little child did not know his mother had already died; he was pulling her foot and kept calling his mother to come down from where she was. The mother found out she was HIV-positive not long before; her husband had previously died of AIDS and they have wasted all their money to fake doctors. This kind of story is everywhere in all the AIDS villages in Henan province."
Evans-Pritchard is correct. "Successful" population control programs, such as China's one-child policy, lead to an aging of the population. All these zero population zealots who have been warning the world about the so-called population explosion are really promoting a kind of demographic suicide. Nations that refuse to accept children are doomed.
The sad thing is that all of this population control madness has been forced on the Chinese people. Women who become pregnant a second time are forced to undergo abortions. Population officials in towns and villages monitor women's menstrual cycles. What a great loss of personal freedom. Now the whole concept of the extended family is dying out in China. Young people don't have brothers and sisters. All in the name of population control.
China is a classic example of how a "right" to practice birth control and to choose abortion has been turned into a state-imposed duty.
"America's space monopoly?" I thought the Russians had more satellites in orbit, and most of them were for military purposes. What's more, even before the Columbia tragedy, they were able to get a Soyuz spacecraft off the ground more often than we could launch a space shuttle.
Communism carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction and that of the society in which it resides.
Sounds a lot similar to all the global warming fear mongering I hear. It assumes current trends will continue forever. More boys than girls in China? Soon girls will become more valuable, families will begin having more girls, etc.
Chinese development will continue. Our best bet is to help and encourage it to continue in positive humanistic fashion.
I can hardly wait for 2080 when we can see the aftermath.....
...what?....I'm taking my vitamins!
Me thinks there will be several world catastrophies before China's population management problem comes home to roost.
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Or a ready supply of military manpower.
This presumes that the CCP will not find other "uses" for all of those extra men, and do so in a very nationalistic way. I would not count on that.
Well, here is one nation that needs "Gay marriage"