The One Child Policy saved China and gave it the opportunity to become a prosperous country with a vibrant middle class. We need some population control in the USA. Half the children in our country are born to people who can't afford to feed or shelter them without government assistance. They have children with the expectation that the government will feed and house them.
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The demographic studies published by uncensored authorities outside China suggest that the One Child Policy was unnecessary. The flood of reports by various human rights NGOs would suggest that it was also cruel, inhumane and, yes, tantamount to murder.
As for the United States, I somehow doubt that the statistics you cite actually bear any resemblance to the reality. Source, please?
As for the United States, I somehow doubt that the statistics you cite actually bear any resemblance to the reality. Source, please?
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Family planning even at the US level, of whether to abort or not, divides the population; it is naturally controversial along religious lines and issues of women’s choices. In China it became state policy but provoked endless controversy as well, as exceptions were allowed to try and fit policy to long standing cultural traditions. A female first child for a rural agricultural family was a disaster as she would at marriage disappear into the husband’s family leaving no one to care for elderly etc., therefore a second attempt was allowed for a male. Minorities, about 10% of total population, were exempt from one-child policy. Never-the-less the policy prevented an estimated 320 millions births, the approximate size of America’s population in an already crowded world.
Looking to the future, in a global warning world in Parag Khanna’s. Connectography his analysis is open ended to the obnoxious possibilities of a planet at plus 4 degrees centigrade where neither of the most populous nations India or China is inhabitable.
And along the way “London will be underwater in twenty-five years, southern Europe will resemble the Sahara Desert, the Alps will have no snow, almost all coral reefs will be dead, and the world population could drop up to 80 percent by 2100. Those left alive could enjoy the Florida-like climate of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.”
Clearly, the topic of population will be around in one form or another for years to come.
Looking to the future, in a global warning world in Parag Khanna’s. Connectography his analysis is open ended to the obnoxious possibilities of a planet at plus 4 degrees centigrade where neither of the most populous nations India or China is inhabitable.
And along the way “London will be underwater in twenty-five years, southern Europe will resemble the Sahara Desert, the Alps will have no snow, almost all coral reefs will be dead, and the world population could drop up to 80 percent by 2100. Those left alive could enjoy the Florida-like climate of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.”
Clearly, the topic of population will be around in one form or another for years to come.
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It's fine for a physician in private practice to express opinions on anything – as this gentleman has done for many years – but he does not carry the burden of providing 4 billion meals every day, which the Party does.
In this case, as in all such matters, the people who bear the responsibility are the ones to call the shots.
In this case, as in all such matters, the people who bear the responsibility are the ones to call the shots.
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nice to know that the republican (small "r") spirit is alive and well in California...
The Communist Party leadership are not the ones who provide four billion meals per day to the Chinese people. The Chinese people are responsible for doing that.
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Funny, it is actually the Chinese people who are providing meals to the leeching bureaucratic class in China.
it was only sensible to attempt to limit the burgeoning population of China. We are breeding ourselves to extinction.
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Was it sensible to empower petty bureaucrats to abuse their power in ways that led to the deaths of millions? Was it sensible to give them the right to force women to abort as late as the ninth month of their pregnancies? Was it sensible to push families into thinking that their only choices were to drown their own children?
Yes, bad things have always happened when women are faced with difficult choices about child bearing. But the Communist Party made much misery with its One Child Policy.
Yes, bad things have always happened when women are faced with difficult choices about child bearing. But the Communist Party made much misery with its One Child Policy.
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Chinese leaders have addressed overpopulation one of the most crucial problems facing the world. Can one imagine what state China would be in now if not for these policies? Educated people make better family planning decisions. When people in developing countries are left alone in their bedrooms what happens? Hopefully women in all corners of the world will be educated and supported enough ro one day make their own healthy choices.
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It is unfortunate that many decades after the clear understanding of the effects of the education of women and specific policies of the Chinese government on China's fertility has been understood, that such practices continue. No one is fooled, even party members.
No wonder so many tens of millions of Chinese have left the country and tens of millions plan for their offspring to do the same.
No wonder so many tens of millions of Chinese have left the country and tens of millions plan for their offspring to do the same.
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Living in the United States, we take advantage of our freedoms. It is unimaginable that the government could force you to put a cap on how many children you can have. Unfortunately, the people of China have not had this basic freedom for many years now. The government should not be able to tell a woman how many children she can have because pregnancy is not fully avoidable unless she were to be abstinent. Yes, for many years in the US women were not allowed the choice weather to keep or abort their babies, but the laws in place forced them to give birth to a living child instead of requiring them to kill it. It is completely different to penalize a family for wanting to keep their multiple children than it is to require that a mother not murder her child. I am glad to see that the number of citizens are willing to speak up about the constrains of their government is excessive. Especially when it comes to matter of their personal lives, the government should have less control than the family. No one should have to explain why they want to exercise their God given right to have children with their spouse. The people should listen to Dr. Yi because he is not trying to destroy the way their society functions but is only trying to shed light on their sheltered life. Through censorship it it harder to form your own opinions, especially rebellious ones. I can only hope that this negative attention sheds light on the situation and causes the government to make changes.
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