there next law will prolly be you can have two children but... they MUST BE different sexes. so gender abortion will still continue
Posted on 01/11/2010 3:44:08 PM PST by wagglebee
January 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chinese state media has admitted that the country’s One Child policy has resulted in a potentially disastrous demographic crisis. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences reports that the policy that mandates abortion for many pregnancies, combined with sex-selection and a cultural preference for boys, has created a gender imbalance that will result in 24 million men who cannot find wives by 2020.
The Academy study said that for every 100 girls born in China, 119 boys are born. In some areas, the split is 100 to 130. Gender selective abortions have become "extremely common" with the introduction of ultrasound technology since the late 1980s.
Sex-specific abortions have led to a large male population born since the 1980s, the China Daily newspaper said. According to China Daily, the policy has resulted in the “prevention” of about 400 million children.
Researcher Wang Guangzhou was quoted by the Global Times newspaper saying, “The chance of getting married will be rare if a man is more than 40-years-old in the countryside. They will be more dependent on social security as they age and have fewer household resources to rely on.”
According to the current law, city-dwelling couples are allowed to have only one child unless neither parent has siblings and those living in rural areas may have up to two children.
The Washington Post reports that mothers from mainland China are exploiting a loophole in the law that allows them to give birth in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous area, and thereby to have more than one child. They are also attracted to the higher quality of health care that features many western-trained health workers. Parents are attracted to the former British colony where native children receive permanent residence status that allows free education, free medical care and a Hong Kong passport with visa-free access to more than 100 countries. Government statistics show that 44 of every 100 babies born in Hong Kong had mainland Chinese mothers.
After a generation of the one-child policy, and with the severity of the demographic implications finally becoming undeniable, Chinese officials are cautiously indicating that there may be changes coming. The city of Shanghai is one city in China that has realized the danger of a baby-bust, which has resulted in media-based effort to boost the city's flagging birth rate. Couples in that city are now allowed to have a second child and officials are considering more changes.
Nicole Kempton, Washington Director of the Laogai Research Foundation, called on the Obama administration to speak out against China’s One Child policy that has killed so many of the country’s girls. Writing in the Huffington Post, Kempton said the One Child policy, “represents an unprecedented State intrusion concerning women's reproductive choices.”
Kempton praised the pro-abortion UN’s 1994 Cairo conference saying it “has had a powerful and measurable impact on reproductive health, infant mortality, and maternal empowerment.” But she noted that China has used the Cairo conference “as moral cover for the draconian methods employed in enforcing the One Child Policy.”
Far from decrying China’s human rights abuses, including forced abortion, against violators of the policy, “many proponents of zero population growth used the occasion to applaud China for its efforts at population growth reduction,” Kempton wrote.
Why would Zero do that, he considers children to be "punishment".
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Well how is that working out for you commies?
Bumping this one to the top!
Time to buy stock in Real Companion.
And what to do with all those extra men.
The PRC is increasing their deep water navy, for one thing.
there next law will prolly be you can have two children but... they MUST BE different sexes. so gender abortion will still continue
A 24 million man cannon fodder military to send against Russia and/or Japan and the rest Eastern Asia and Western Pacific. And eventually against the USA.
You are right, of course, it doesnt appear likely that Obama would speak out, but I found the sentence following your quote interesting:
“Writing in the Huffington Post, Kempton said the One Child policy, “represents an unprecedented State intrusion concerning women’s reproductive choices.” “
I find it hopeful that anyone is willing to speak out in such an environment as the Huffington Post and make the case to liberal women about government sponsored abortion being an intrusion into women’s reproductive choices!
(By the way, I’m wondering just what is the Laogai Research Foundation?)
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Did a quick search:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Wu
“Wu was born in Shanghai. He came from a wealthy family; his father was a banker, and his mother was descended from landlords. He recalls his childhood as being one of “peace and pleasure” but that these fortunes changed after the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949: “During my teen-age years, my father lost all his properties. We had money problems. The government took over all the property in the country. We even had to sell my piano[2].”
Wu studied at the Geology Institute in Beijing, where he was first arrested in 1956 for criticizing the Communist Party during the brief period of liberalization in China known as the Hundred Flowers Campaign. He has also claimed that he protested the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. In 1960 he was sent to the laogai (”reform through labor”), the Chinese labor camp system, as a “counterrevolutionary rightist.”[3] He was imprisoned for 19 years in 12 different camps[3] mining coal, building roads, clearing land, and planting and harvesting crops. According to his own accounts, he was beaten, tortured and nearly starved to death, and witnessed the deaths of many other prisoners from brutality, starvation, and suicide.
Released in 1979 in the liberalization which followed the death of Mao Zedong, Wu left China and went to the United States, where he became a visiting professor. There he began writing about his experiences in China. In 1992 he resigned his academic post and became a human rights activist. He established the Laogai Research Foundation, a non-profit research and public education organization which was financed by the AFL-CIO and in fact was based there in the early years. The work of the foundation is recognized as a leading source of information on China’s labor camps, and was instrumental in proving that organs of executed criminals were used for organ transplants.[4].
In 1995 Wu, by then a U.S. citizen, was arrested as he tried to enter China with valid, legal documentation. He was held by the Chinese government for 66 days before he was convicted in a show trial for “stealing state secrets.” He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but was instead immediately deported from China. He attributes his release to an international campaign launched on his behalf.[5]
He was awarded the Courage of Conscience Award by the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts, on September 14, 1995 for his extraordinary sacrifices and commitment to exposing human rights violations in his motherland China.[6]
In November 2008, Wu opened the Laogai Museum in Washington, D.C., calling it the first ever United States museum to directly address human rights in China.[5][7][8]
Who wooda thunk it.
The custom in China is the son is responsible for taking care of his parents in old age, while any daughters take care of her husband’s parents. So having a boy is their social security system. What I don’t get is why they are communists when they don’t even get “free stuff” like social security and health care. We’re more communist acting than China on some levels.
24 million men? No wives?
Sounds like a pretty good sized expeditionary force, actually, with a net positive effect on demographics.
They could lose every one of them in battle and walk away unscathed (demographically speaking).
Excellent and terrifying point.
This will lead to China sending 25 million “excess” men abroad on wars of conquiest and colonization.
They will correctly perceive that they have a better chance at finding a mate in the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan etc than if they stay home.
It’s a win-win for the Beijing govt. If they are killed, great. Less angry frustrated men. If they are victorious, Beijing gains colonies.
I think there will be more Chinese than Africans in Africa in 100 years.
Countries like New Zealand will fall like plucking a low hanging apple from a tree. To the Chinese, countries like New Zealand seem as “empty” as America did to the colonists in 1500.
I agree, see above.
Thats a frightening idea. Great idea for a novel though.
I have 2 daughters adopted from China for the reason that China does not want girls. Now they do, or will soon.
The one child/male child policy is a social experiment that is unprecedented. Where has this happened before? The only thing close that I can think of was when European nations killed off millions of boys during WWI. Hence the “lost generation”.
How this is manifest is anyone’s guess. Some sort of major social disruption is a given.
What were they thinking exactly?
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Don't worry, lonely men of China, the fools who set US immigration and refugee policies will make you all eligible for humanitarian refugee programs and resettlement in the USA.
That's about how much common sense they normally exercise in setting policies.
1. Why don’t those Chinese men find mail-order brides from Russia and the Philippines? What, nobody wants to go live in China?
2. I agree with some other posters, who think the excess males will be a formidable army. They’ll be headed our way when we default on all the money we owe China.
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