naja pulliam collins's List: One child Policy

• China will not consider changing its one-child policy for at least a decade for fear that a population surge could spark social and economic instability,
• "Given such a large population base, there would be major fluctuations in population growth if we abandoned the one-child rule now," he was quoted as saying. "It would cause serious problems and add extra pressure on social and economic development."
• • this would be a good quote to put in slide show to show how the governemnet feels about the one child policy
• Any change in the policy would be considered only after the end of the country's next birth peak in 10 years,
• • they do not feel like it is necessary to change now even though its against free will for people
• n recent weeks, several officials have suggested that an overhaul of the policy may be forthcoming since China has succeeded in slowing down its population growth.
• Debate about potential changes has been fueled by concern over the growing burden of China's aging population
• According to government figures, those aged 60 or older expected to top 200 million by 2015 and 280 million by 2025.
• But in fact, the growth rate is already negative," he said.
• China's current average birth rate is at 1.8 children per couple, below the 2.1 rate needed for a population to replace itself.

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• Many of the girls were quite normal but seemed to have been abandoned for economic reasons or as a result of China's one child policy and the preference for boys.

  • its the one child policy!
• "I looked at the medical records of all these cases and examined the death certificates. What upset me most was that sometimes I saw new orphans who were healthy when they were admitted, but within a short period they died."
• "We estimate that in China's best known and most prestigious orphanage, the Shanghai Children's Welfare Institute, the total mortality in the late 80s and early 90s was probably running as high as 80%. Even official figures put the annual death to admission ratio at 77.6% in 1991."

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• a quarter of a century
• Chinese government claimed that it was a short-term measure
• small-family culture
• . At the time, China was home to a quarter of the world's people, who were occupying just 7 percent of world's arable land
• . Two thirds of the population were under the age of 30 years, and the baby boomers of the 1950s and 1960s were entering their reproductive year
• These regulations include restrictions on family size, late marriage and childbearing, and the spacing of children (in cases in which second children are permitted)

  • what i cannot understand is how the people were able to follow such a rule?
    What if it was on accident would they then have to kill the child? most likely they would but the baby in an orphanage to be abused
• The exceptions include families in which the first child has a disability or both parents work in high-risk occupations (such as mining) or are themselves from one-child families (in some areas).
• • if the first child has a disability then they dont count really? Thats really rude, feels likt they are saying that you can try again cus your first baby as a failed attempt basically... what if the second child is disabled too, then are you just done? What if you have twins then do you just like... throw one away?
• • children with disabilites = female children
    if you have either first you can try again in most cases
    
• In rural areas, where approximately 70 percent of the people live, a second child is generally allowed after five years, but this provision sometimes applies only if the first child is a girl — a clear acknowledgment of the traditional preference for boys
• They include economic incentives for compliance and substantial fines, confiscation of belongings, and dismissal from work for noncompliance.
• A total of 87 percent of all married women use contraception⁴; this statistic compares with about one third in most developing countries.
• avy reliance on lo
• with 25 percent of women of reproductive age having had at least one abortion, as compared with 43 percent in the United States.

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• Revered leader Deng Xiaoping brought in the policy in 1979, at the beginning of China's era of economic reform. He believed that to make the reforms work and improve living standards, China had to limit the growth of its huge population.

• One recent study says the decline will cut 0.7 per cent a year off the annual growth of the economy by 2030. 

   The irony is that a policy intended to aid China's rise as an economic power may end up strangling its growth instead

• With just over 1.3 billion people (1,330,044,605 as of mid-2008), China is the world's largest and most populous country.
• • whoever decided about the one child policy was very smart
• The necessary total fertility rate for a stable population is 2.1; nonetheless, China's population is expected to grow over the next few decades. This can be attributed to immigration and a decrease in infant mortality and a decrease in death rate as national health improves.

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• • does this mean that China is still communist?
• China's one child policy was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to limit communist China's population growth.
• • that is so wrong, that is limiting people's free will
• • do you have to like file for a paper or something to et the right to have children? how do you know you are allowed to have children in china?
• • maybe i can use this to do statics of chinese population growth over the past few years versus american populations growth
• Fines, pressures to abort a pregnancy, and even forced sterilization accompanied second or subsequent pregnancies.
• Statistically, China's total fertility rate (the number of births per woman) is 1.7, much higher than slowly-declining Germany at 1.4 but lower than the U.S. at 2.1 (2.1 births per woman is the replacement level of fertility, representing a stable population, exclusive of migration).

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• • does this mean that China and the US have different views on what should be done and that is why they are fighting
• • if we do not make ammeds with china they could become a threat for war oh no!!
• • that would be bad for the economy because like eveything comes from China

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