Chinese Style Population Control
In article <7163823F2EDACF1188610000C0F06ACF51D908@>, Snee D <D.Snee@> wrote:
Gordan Bobic wrote:
approach to population control and yet is blissfully unaware of the
unfortunate consequences. Most societies on Earth are male orientated
ones, even today. This means that if you can only really have one child
and it was a girl you might feel cheated or that you could have done
better. Now ignoring any inrellivant damage to a parents ego, a sizeable
percentage of parents in China do kill or 'loose' baby girls in order that
they may then go on and try for a boy. This results in an unnaturally high
level of orphaned girls and a infant mortality rate that is higher than it
should be.
Population control, good idea, using the Chinese example as proof
that it can work, perhaps, but it's morally suspect to do so.
Humans, like nature, can react in previously unexpected ways to "good
ideas", be carefull out there.
My objection to the Chinese model would not be the effectiveness of it, butOK, now there is a lot of argument about the birth control of some sort.
Chinese have a good method for this - if a family wants to have more
than one child (or more than two - I'm not sure), they have to pay extra
tax for that. This increases exponentially with the number of children
you have.
I don't know if they have some catch about twins, and such (as would
appear to be fair), but in general (given that a most common birth is
that of a single child), this seems to be a very good method.
I'm impressed someone in the developed world is aware of the ChineseChinese have a good method for this - if a family wants to have more
than one child (or more than two - I'm not sure), they have to pay extra
tax for that. This increases exponentially with the number of children
you have.
I don't know if they have some catch about twins, and such (as would
appear to be fair), but in general (given that a most common birth is
that of a single child), this seems to be a very good method.
approach to population control and yet is blissfully unaware of the
unfortunate consequences. Most societies on Earth are male orientated
ones, even today. This means that if you can only really have one child
and it was a girl you might feel cheated or that you could have done
better. Now ignoring any inrellivant damage to a parents ego, a sizeable
percentage of parents in China do kill or 'loose' baby girls in order that
they may then go on and try for a boy. This results in an unnaturally high
level of orphaned girls and a infant mortality rate that is higher than it
should be.
Population control, good idea, using the Chinese example as proof
that it can work, perhaps, but it's morally suspect to do so.
Humans, like nature, can react in previously unexpected ways to "good
ideas", be carefull out there.
the level of suffering imposed. The prevalence of men in China will
certainly have an effect on grandchildren: all the parents who aborted or
killed their little girls are going to grow old watching their firstborn son
searching ever more frantically for a non-existent wife. And, since in
human reproduction rates women are the bottleneck, the population will
*really* plummet.
Good population control, rotten lifestyle control.
Simon
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