Chinas one child Policy

My observation today is that the Chinese Parents and Grandparents spoil there children rotten, so that you today have so many small Emperors as my wife calls them, she is Chinese and cant understand that the Chinese parents cant see that the " boy preference" is so wrong today, when nearly 200 million men in China will never get a wife or a girlfriend. But when Doctors eat soda noodles, because they believe that gives a better chance for getting a boy then I can understand why it is so difficult to get across to the "modern" Chinese public!

"quote from China Daily"

It has given me more freedom, "said Cheng Ling Ling. She talks about China's so-called one-child policy, one of the most controversial parts of the lives of Chinese people. But for 33-year-old Cheng has been positive.

"It has eliminated the social and traditional pressures to have more children. I do not need to be only a mother, but can also concentrate on his career as a manager in a foreign IT company. "

Four years ago she gave birth to a girl. "If I had had more children, it would totally have put an end to my career. Just being a housewife gives no respect, "she says."unquote"

Since 1979, China's family planning rules changed the dynamics of Chinese families, especially those in cities, almost all have been prevented from having more than one child. Purpose of the policy was to curb the country's population growth. And while the world population reached seven billion., The Chinese government to point out that the one-child policy has led to nearly half a billion fewer births in the country within the past three decades - and according to Chinese scientists, has delayed today's anniversary of five years.

Chinese experts suggest that women have achieved higher status, as they have no brothers to compete with them on the parents' favor. And when they are thus one of being the family's hope for the future, use all resources to further their education and welfare, which is a strong break with centuries of discrimination.

"If I had had a brother, I was probably not completed at the university," says 23-year-old student Zhao Liunan. "Then there would have been some other expectations of me."

Imbalance between people

Today there are as many female as male university students in China. The reason for the assignment, along with major investments by the state and several decades of economic growth, one-child policy.

But the policy has been controversial. It has been praised for reducing pressures on the environment and resources. China's government says it has "promoted the building of a sustainable economy and a sustainable society."

But it has also been severely criticized for being inhumane. That it should have helped to improve Chinese woman’s lives and status are also controversial when it also has hurt women in so many other ways. Eager officials have, under pressure to meet population quotas, often resorted to illegal methods such as forced sterilization and forced abortions - sometimes as late as a few weeks before termination. Female fetuses are frequently aborted and newborn girls have been abandoned or killed because of the widespread traditional preference for male children. This has created a huge imbalance in the number of girls and boys. In China today there are 118 men for every 100 women, which means millions of men can not find a mate. And when these young men often are already dissatisfied to belong to a group of low-skilled and relatively poor, they constitute a major threat to social stability. Moreover, the strict population control also led to a ticking demographic time bomb, as the falling birth rate and rapidly aging society will undermine one of its main economic asset: human labor. China will face an unprecedented high dependency ratios, which the country is ill-prepared when the social security system and pension system today is far from being in place.