China Has A Bit Of A Problem

[Hkindiana]

I can't seem to find anything quickly to support this but, I seem to remember reading something years ago where Chinese families were aborting female fetuses if their one government approved pregnancy was a male child.
I could be mistaken. I'm my memory is correct, however, they've done it to themselves.
Besides, how else are you going to build and maintain a million man army if you dont have an imbalance in the number of males in the population?

With the Chinese one child policy, IF the child Dies before it is one year old, they are allowed to have another. Since a male child, in China, is considered an "asset", and a female child a "liability", there is a hugely disproportionate amount of SIDS, and "accidental" (such as bathtub drownings) in the first year of a Childs life, amoug the sexes. So, YES, they have done it to themselves.

 

[DialTone301]

Just remember in the countryside the 1 child policy was commonly ignored. My wife is one of 5 children (3 boys and 2 girls) and from what I have seen in her province it was common to have more than 1 child.

The times I have been in China I have not noticed a shortage of young women...I know the numbers say different but I didn't notice it.

 

[lon]

And I, for one, don't think it's a small one. They've got an imbalance between the sexes in their country. Too many males and not enough females. One in four males in that country are going to go through life without a wife, or even a girlfriend. That number works out to 10's of millions of people who are going to react in a variety of ways, (as the author points out) but he doesn't think creatively enough. These guys could plunge China into a state of chaos. Especially, since the government can't possibly do anything about it, (short of sending expeditionary forces abroad to kidnap women). While it's a sad situation on one level, on another it lends itself to creating a chaotic dystopia where rape gangs rove the cities and countryside. Then again, they could always euthanise the lonely.

Ah, another issue with youth in asia....

 

[CarmelHP]

China also has a problem with a rapidly aging population. They're going to have a population plummet in a few decades. Populations may rise geometrically but they fall that way also.

 

[whoismunky]

Has homosexuality not taken hold in China yet? Maybe they should import some American television shows...

='( the truth in that makes me so sad

 

[dukeboy_318]

so does this mean the Chinese mail order bride catalog is no longer valid?!

 

[iwearcowboyboots]

so does this mean the Chinese mail order bride catalog is no longer valid?!

Sort of... I was trying to buy a few a couple weeks ago and my broker let me know that they are currently not accepting new orders because they need to recalculate pricing. He said that he suspected at least an 18% price increase over previously May quotes and that there would now only be a quantity discount for purchases of 10 or more.

 

[Stschil]

Sort of... I was trying to buy a few a couple weeks ago and my broker let me know that they are currently not accepting new orders because they need to recalculate pricing. He said that he suspected at least an 18% price increase over previously May quotes and that there would now only be a quantity discount for purchases of 10 or more.

Oh dang, does that mean i lost my security deposit?

 

[edsinger]

Has anyone thought of the 200 million man army? India and China are a good candidate no?

 

[ArmedProgrammer]

This is what happens when the .gov tries to manage things, as opposed to letting the free market solve it. The law of unintended consequences.

 

[garlic_b]

They've had this problem in China for a little while now.

They might have to alter the one child policy and make having boys illegal, or carry heavy fines. A country full of a bunch of guys, I'm sure tourism is going to boom

Actually outside the major cities there is already an exception. Typically, if your first child is a girl, you can have a second. In the big cities tho it is still pretty strict.

 

[garlic_b]

I can't seem to find anything quickly to support this but, I seem to remember reading something years ago where Chinese families were aborting female fetuses if their one government approved pregnancy was a male child.
I could be mistaken. I'm my memory is correct, however, they've done it to themselves.
Besides, how else are you going to build and maintain a million man army if you dont have an imbalance in the number of males in the population?

This actually led to a law here, now doctors can't tell the prospective parents the gender of the unborn child. Of course, their are corrupt doctors that will drop "hints" in exchange for "gifts". But one thing people don't know about Chinese is that they are generally quite law-abiding.

 

[rambone]

This actually led to a law here, now doctors can't tell the prospective parents the gender of the unborn child. Of course, their are corrupt doctors that will drop "hints" in exchange for "gifts".

Are they corrupt, or are they defying an unjust law?