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Q: Chinas one child policy
With the amount of people born everyday in the world will Chinas one child policy ever be viewed as good forward thinking in the west?
I was reading a report on demographics the other day. It indicated that China will have an acute labor shortage within the next few decades as the population grows older. This also means a bigger stress on those kids who have to take care of their grandparents. Less labor usually means higher wages to attract people. This increase in wages will affect trade because products in other Asian countries will become more competitive than products from China. Beijing may not be able to sustain it's economic growth as a result of the one child policy. They have finally learned that rich people usually will not have more than one child. The very people who can afford to have more than one child don't want more children.
All it has done is create millions of self-centered, narscissistic little brats that think the world owes them a favour.....or for the poor ones, forced them to be the only means of support for their parents, creating a giant burden.
The west already has a lower birth rate than China (not counting Latino Catholics).
Ha! Not until the Pope approves birth control. There's too many catholics running around that would never allow a one child policy.
crimochina:
if the catholic church (or any church) sees a profit to be made from it, they will change their minds quickly
crimochina:
"blessed by the hand of god himself, use it and there will be no unplanned pregnancies (unlike a certain mary .. you know who) "
Here's a recent news story and a map about this from NPR.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/11/03/141943008/when-governments-pay-people-to-have-babies
And here's a map, country by country, explaining birth rate, population, whether the country is encouraging or discouraging babies and comparing it to GDP.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/02/141881576/map-population-density-global-fertility-and-gdp
tmestep8:
I fact, here's a bunch of stories about the world reaching 7 billion: http://www.npr.org/series/141810687/7-billion-people-one-planet
my one child died, screw you, i want another one.
I was reading a report on demographics the other day. It indicated that China will have an acute labor shortage within the next few decades as the population grows older. This also means a bigger stress on those kids who have to take care of their grandparents. Less labor usually means higher wages to attract people. This increase in wages will affect trade because products in other Asian countries will become more competitive than products from China. Beijing may not be able to sustain it's economic growth as a result of the one child policy. They have finally learned that rich people usually will not have more than one child. The very people who can afford to have more than one child don't want more children.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/31/china/china-three-child-policy-intl-hnk/index.html
we screwed up please have babies, pretty please
Now you can have three, do the lawbreakers get a refund for helping society against the wishes of stupid government policy?
