Okay interesting thing to read for interesting people. What yer think?

Sexy Slig · #1 01-19-2002, 12:02 PM

Everyone else comes up with things like this sooo....
China. A country situated in Asia, featuring the worlds largest population. China’s population now exceeds well over one thousand million, meaning that a lot of people are living in the country with a limited amount of food and other resources. The Chinese goverment has realised this situation and has done something about it. They have come up with a strict birth control policy to stop more people filling the country.

The policy is that a family may have only a single child, and no more. While this might sound unfair at first, a family with a single child get the benifits of free education, allowances for the child, priority housing and pension benifits. However, a family who has two children gets none of these benifits and a fine from their earnings. Woman must be over 20 to marry and men must be over 22. Couples must have permission to marry and also must have permission to have a child. Every family has a family planning officer to keep them to the rules. These planners are the people that couples ask if they want a child. Planners are also avaiable at work. Sometimes people are paid to tell on people if they are pregnant which leads to the person bieng punished for law breaking. The goverment explains abortions as not a murder because the babies in question are not babies until they are born.

A lot of Chinese people are unhappy with these rules and one man even threatened to kill the birth control officers he was talking to if they forced him to take a vasectomy. This is an example on how the Chinese goverment is having trouble pushing its one child policy. From the goverments point of view, they must clearly control a population which has now passed the 1000 million mark. To many, the effects of the policy, from forced abortion and sterilsation to female infanticide, are very worrying. While a fair few people accept these rules, there are many who dont. The peasants who make up 80% of chinas population are proving to be very stubborn because of their wish to have lots of children to help them on the farms and to look after them when they are old. They prefer boys to girls to the point at which they will kill their child if it is a girl.

So what do you think? What aree your thoughts? Opinions etc.
P.S. You can congratulate me if you want. Took a long time to write ya know.

Danny · #2 01-19-2002, 12:34 PM

While I am not keen on overpopulation myself, these rules are stupid for several reasons:

1. The people who need the most support from the government [IE those with large families to support] are the ones gaining the least.

2. If people did stick to this, the population of China would half with every generation...

3. If they can't stop people committing infanticide, then they are not ready for these laws. Quite frankly, I find it slightly hard to believe that a state with such rigid police control as China is unable to stop parents killing their children...

Steve · #3 01-19-2002, 02:25 PM

well the tibetans in china have often been subjects of anti abortion arguments(or just a few I don't listen to many). but infact the government doesn't seem to care about them and it is normal to have many children. also I think it's a good law. rettick it would be less than half becuase if people are trying to get males only and can comit infanticide then there would be less pairs thus even less babys.

Sexy Slig · #4 01-19-2002, 05:21 PM

Hmmm interesting views there..keep em comin!

Capri Ream · #5 01-20-2002, 03:13 AM

But you know they have a liable reason to be doing this. I mean they have a population of over 1000 million. They have to find some way to control thieir population problem or conditions could orsen. I am NOT saying I am totlly with the Chinese goverment on this. It's just that their goverment beleives they have to do this.

Steve the Gabbit · #6 01-22-2002, 12:30 AM

i just read everyones replies on this subject and it really confused me

but i do think that people should take it upon themselves to try to not overpopulate the world

Steve · #7 01-22-2002, 11:24 AM

if a human doesn't then who will? whats better not letting people have children or letting them have as many as they want and have them starve to death?

Surfacing · #8 01-22-2002, 12:59 PM

Hmmmm, in a way having a huge population is good for the economy and the military force,China is a huge country all these officer guys that don't allow citizens to have more than one child are just delaying the inerrable.

Conzumah · #9 01-23-2002, 01:14 PM

i think it's a great set of laws. It seems harsh, and it is. but at somepoint humans as a whole have to start realizing that we're going to destroy the world through things like over-population. i'm glad there's a country with leaders that are intelligent enough to see this and act upon thier insight. so they commit infantcied? i think there should be way more abortions all around the world. at some point we have to start understanding that the earth is NOT going to be able to support the strain that we're putting on it. Our grandchildren are screwed.

PinkHaired Mudokon CWR · #10 01-23-2002, 01:26 PM

Yeah, that stinks. They would kill the second child and take their hearts to America just incase someone needed a heart transplant job. I don't know if they still do that because China was soooo populated. I find that kinda sad.