Following the catastrophic earthquake last May in China, the government relaxed the One Child Law and is allowing couples who lost a child in the earthquake to have a new replacement child. In fact, the government has sent specialists to the area to reverse sterilization procedures and help couples with fertility issues. The New York Times reports.
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I happen to believe that China’s one child program is the most courageous national policy ever enacted. And this is coming from me, a strong anti-communist who fought the Chinese in Korea. All the purported problems we have on this planet are only corollaries to over-population. Whether the energy dilemma, food shortages, receding water tables, etc.
That exceptions are being made because of a disaster is heartwarming and has nothing to do with the principle of recognizing the population problem. The problem.
It’s a well documented fact that over-population is not the world’s greatest problem. Food distribution is the reason people on earth are starving, and human greed is at the bottom of the whole issue. The grief that China’s one-child policy has caused far outweighs its contribution to the solution of their “population” problem. Manipulation of people’s reproduction choices by the government is not the answer. There has to be a better way to assure people thrive and grow healthily in an overcrowded nation.
After living for a year in China, I soon realised that the 1-child policy is far from simple and certainly not universally applied.
The Chinese government haven’t relaxed the law at all. What they’ve done is reversed sterilization to allow parents to have another child. It’s common and encouraged to be sterilized after the birth of your child to avoid any accidental 2nd pregnancies.
Here are some 1-child exceptions:
1. Minorities (just under 10% of the population are not Han-Chinese) are permitted to have more than 1 child.
2. Rural Population – they are permitted to have two children
3. Only-child Parents – A couple where both parents are only children themselves are able to have 2 children
4. Disabled children – If your 1st child is disabled then you’re able to have another
5. A child dies – you are entitled to have another child
6. Parents willing to pay for it – 3 years salary is what I’ve been quoted for parents in Shanghai who break the rule and have a 2nd child.
This is pathetic that you can only have 1 child. Seiously they are (in China) making a fuss about “overcrowding” but if you look on a map of China, only the Eastern Coast is overcrowded. There is plenty of room elsewhere in China.
Ginny you’re completely wrong. Come up with a better solution and then we’ll talk. As far as Im concerned i wish a pandemic would kill off over 3 billion of us i would enjoy that. That’s what we need. People that deny the population problem are idiots and by the way it is THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM..food distribution wouldn’t be an issue if the planet wasn’t so populated. get a ******* clue
Ginny you’re completely wrong. Over population is the number one problem facing the planet today. food distribution wouldn’t be an issue if it wasn’t for over population. so please go get a clue and cross your fingers for a pandemic that wipes out about 3 billion people
you cant just replace a child.