unfortunately, with china, i do think its necessary to prevent over populaion and increase in poverty, though i dnt agree in the measures they take to kill the baby if the family already one child. Of course abortions as the early stages is ok as its not too destrimental to the mothers life but aborting at 5 mths upwards is too abusive. This is a tough arguement as at one side it has been benefical to china and the population and on the other, it overwrites human ethics
this topic will be like the 'egg or chicken first' kinda topic because there will always be two sides of it. like said, it's neccessary for China to do so because of the increasing population thus resulting in poverty and over-populated cities. this will not do any good to the people living in China because with over-populated people, they tend to have more manpower. thus, they will be easily exploited eg.super low wages from big companies. it will only result in even worse life quality. yes, abortion is a cruel thing to do and sometimes the poorer families that can't afford to go for ultra scanning before birth will simply dump or bury the girls alive when they were born. i don't mean to be biased by saying baby girls. but that's what i see/heard from documentaries and even from the NGOs about the condition in China. sometimes, it's hard to make a choice when it comes to human's life. but i guess this policy is an effective way of decreasing the burden for those in China(even tho it might be in a sad way).
yep yep agree, the one child policy is in force to stop overpopulation. though if u have the money then u can still have more than one child. so in a way it works cos it makes sure that u have enough money so that ur kids grow up in a gd atmosphere.
definitly the way it should be in india and china... those two countries alone make up or almost make up half the worlds' population.... so over population wouldn't be good and also the whole financial aspect.
don't think they have a policy in india and also it is much harder to implement a policy like that there due to slums and other reasons.
i doubt they have one in India, but what im saying is that they should have one and of course it will be hard to implement but at least some can be prevented......
From an intellectual perspective, I think its entirely necessary. From the humanist perspective, its draconian and will ultimately cause family lines to die out. As more and more people have boys only, not enough women will be available to marry and have. Thus, the number of children born in subsequent generations will decline. Social scientist (both in the PRC and the west) have concluded though, that having legions of men who will never marry and raise families is worrisome. They're projecting that crime and social disturbances will rise because of this. Others have stated that Chinese men will start to look outside their national borders and marry wives from less affluent regions (like Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, et cetera). How that will play out with the socially and racially conscious Chinese will be something to see. Ralph
if u think about it....a lota ppl in china r poor and if they keep having kids then its not even best for their babies...it will only lead to more chiild labour and most babies killed or sufferin...if they really want more kids then move out of china cause china ain't the place u wanna be
ye but like i sed to move out of china u need money and so both ways i guess its gd cos it makes sure that if ur having more than one child, they will have a gd upbringing.
Hmm, I actually think the 1 baby for family is a good thing in China due to the overpopulation rate. If you've ever been in China... its really crowded.. and the jobs that people do for money is crazy. Poverty is so bad there, people would lose an arm for money. I was once followed by a one arm lady that kept begging for money, she said it was for an operation, but I could clearly tell it wasn't as she had alcohol on her breath. China is a tough place to raise a kid unless you have money, meaning, unless you can financially support the child. Its not even worth having one. So yeah, the 1 child per family actually makes sense.
This policy was establish long time ago... it is necessary because of the overpopulation in the capitals city. This policy only apply for family that have more than one child back then (like 30 years ago). If you have more than one child just pay the ticket (a fee for those who have more than 1 child) or you just go to the farms and you can have as many as you want.... lol Today if you are the only child in your family and you marry to another person who is one child in that family you can have the option to give birth to 2 children.
i have mixed feelings about it....like kdot said lots of em are not in the right financial circumstances also u dont want the country to get overpopulated downside whenever one would get pregnant and wouldnt want to pay the fine she would get abortion....=/ n the thing is most families want to have a boy in order to keep the family lines going... what will happen is that girls get chucked or killed..... the amount of boys will increase n the amount of girls will decrease... because there wont be enough girls but the guys still need to be provided with a girl.....there will be no balance.... some pple get desperatethat leads to girls getting kidnapped out of their hometowns to become some random guys' bride n im not exaggarating....i saw some doc on tv last time =/
I think it's necessary but like angie mentioned the unbalance of the boys and girls are becoming a problem because of the policy. I watched this one documentary last year, that families often abandon girls just to have a boy in their family to continue the family line. which in turn starts a new problem in China. and i think it's necessary because of China's population. It has the largest population in the world but yet, the population is concentrated in the coast, and a large portion of China has no population.so i think it's necessary.
NO NO NO. That's so stupid. They might as well just execute people over the age of 60 to prevent over population!!!!
When you think about it, a solution is quite simple. By allowing the wife kid to carry his name will keep the family line alive and will prevent people to only chose keeping male child. Parents can chose to which name their kid will use. To make it even simplier to choose and more fair would be to allow 2 kid instead of 1. But then again, we speaking about rippings a thousands year tradition, and trying to do so with China Population is...impossible.
I personally think it's a necessary "evil" (by Western standards). It is unreasonable to burden an already overtaxed system with more newborns, stretching the resources unnecessarily. Of course, setting an outrageously high fine serve the same purpose but it would all privileged people to be able to "afford" giving birth to extra children, which is totally unfair though I personally thought of as reasonable. In my opinion, the entire world is a huge market of trade-offs where the more resourceful can do whatever they want, allowing the less resourceful an incentive to strive for better things. And yes, the one child policy is conductive if only people can get over their idealist, everyone-has-a-right-to-do-whatever instinct (which often lead to all kinds of downfall).
