Lamanda(Michelle) Reid/March 24,08/8:52a.m./poverty and inequality
China plans to keep one-child policy at least 10 more years was written by Jim Yardley and published on March 10, 2008. China doesn’t plan on changing its one-child policy for at least another decade. Zhang Weiging is the Minister of State Population and Family Planning. Weiging states that the policy want be changing anytime some, because over the next ten years approximately 200 million people will enter childbearing age and this could cause major overcrowding. China is the most populous nation with 1.3 billion people. Estimated population growth is 17 million yearly. Currently the law is urban families are allowed one child, and some farming families are allowed two children. A current problem that China is facing is the supply of young workers to sustain the aging economy. There just simply not enough youth to take care of the older people. Also another problem that they are facing is the gender imbalance, due to the one child rule most couples choose to try to have a boy. After the current population peak China may consider altering the one-child policy.
I believe that several inequalities are occurring in relation to this one-child policy. I don’t feel the government should decide how many children a person should have, that is an inequality in itself. I do agree with the policy, but I think it should be voluntary. This is a major inequality to the female population; they are being outnumbered by males due to this policy. This policy is causing the termination of lots of female fetuses. Also some females are being forced to participate in gender selection. China is currently facing a no win problem with no clear solution.
3 comments:
I understand that there is not enough room for people over there but how do tell someone they can only have one child? What if they accidentally get pregnant? Are they going to tell them to get an abortion or give it up for adoption? Or are they going to force sterilization? I just think that it is wrong.
I think that China's one-child policy is terribly flawed, but I'm not sure we should be so quick to attack the Chinese for limiting the number of children their citizens can have. After all, I think being told to only have one child in exchange for staving off things like starvation, economic collapse, and other issues that overcrowding leads to is kind of a fair trade.
Yes I agree with sugar... regarding the trade off of regulating over starving. Its similar to certain Eskimo groups which have to limit child bearing due to the lack of food.
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