10-22-2010, 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by GatorB
No it's not. For centuries female babies have been killed after they were born. And it still goes on today and still would regardless of 1 child policy or not. For some reason all these idiots only want sons, but aren't smart enough to realize if everyone has boys there won't be any females for their sons to marry and have kids with.
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You just made a case for why their 1 child policy has caused an imbalance.
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24 million Chinese men face lonely future: report
(AFP) ? Jan 10, 2010
BEIJING ? More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported Monday, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...Yo1L8qGckOzoKQ
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Rethinking China's one-child policy
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | 3:42 PM ET Comments28Recommend38
By Anthony Germain CBC News
Believe it or not, despite having more than 1.3 billion people, China needs babies.
Thirty years after the one-child policy was introduced to control the population growth of what was then a backward and poor country, China ? particularly urban China ? is starting to see the unintended consequences of what seemed like a good idea at the time.
The problem is most acute in the big centres such as Shanghai where 20 per cent of the population is over the age of 60. That's almost double the national average.
The financial capital of the mainland also has the country's lowest birthrate and it is leading to a situation where the population is getting too old, too fast.
Policy debates in China aren't usually a very public matter, but behind the scenes at universities and institutes that advise the Communist Party there is a simmering debate about what to do.
"I believe it is time to relax the one-child policy because in the future we will have a serious challenge because of too-low fertility," says Zuo Xuejin, a population expert with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
"In the next five to 10 years there must be more substantial policy changes."
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The government faces both a geriatric and gender crisis within the next two decades that could challenge the stated goal of building a "harmonious society."
The one-child policy was introduced as a "temporary" measure and now, almost three decades later, its days appear to be numbered.
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It's a long article. Learn something... http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/1...a-germain.html
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