In China if you have more than 1 child do they kill the other ones?

Answer 1

They don't kill the other children, but the family is fined and then has to pay higher taxes.

Answer 2

One in the city and two in the country if first is a girl. Some are killed if accidents happen just like here in the USA.

One of the main problems facing China in recent years is overpopulation. The Chinese government
needed to make policies to combat the quickly growing numbers of Chinese citizens. In 1979 the
Family Planning Commission of China implemented the One-Child Policy as a solution. The One-
Child Policy states that parents in urban settings are limited to having only one child. Parents in rural
areas are allowed two children provided the first is a girl. Boys are highly valued in Chinese culture,
and this value especially applies to more rural areas.
The government enforces this regulation by penalizing families that have more children. Parents
with over quota children are fined for each additional birth. Their taxes are raised and they no longer
receive free health care. Parents who comply with the One-Child Policy receive money from the
government in addition to their free healthcare.

Adults in Chinese society worried that having so many only children would cause a new generation of
spoiled and selfish children. Chinese parents as well as the Chinese government feared the 4-2-1
syndrome. The 4-2-1 syndrome is the idea of having four Grandparents, and two parents all focusing
their attention on one child. However, Chinese culture stresses the values of self-discipline, control,
conformity, and working towards the common cause. These values do not support or condone catering
to children and parents were actually not likely to spoil their children. The government also set up
numerous early education programs to help avoid the spoiled child syndrome. Children attend nursery
school and day-care programs from a very early age. These programs enforce working together and do
not individually spoil the children.

The One-Child Policy dramatically reduced the number of births in China. Chinese families were
traditionally large. The current rate of births is down to 1.8 children per woman. However, there are
still many over-quota births especially in rural areas. Families that cannot afford the fines sometimes
feel social and financial pressure to abandon the child. Abandonment is a punishable crime,
but most are overlooked and go unpunished. Many Chinese children end up in orphanages or are
adopted either within China or by families overseas.

Answer 3

China is attempting to keep its population down. If you have one child, you get a job and an apartment. If another one comes, you lose these benefits. They want boys, so if it seems that the first child will be a girl, they abort it. Most of this is happening in the big cities like Beijing. Families in the interior, on the farms, often disregard this law. Tradition allows for children to help till the ground.

Unfortunately, this has led to another problem. There aren't enough young women to marry all of the men. There are about twice as many men as women.

This problem exists in other countries as well, as in India, where girl babies are aborted quite frequently.

Answer 4

Most women who find out they are going to have a girl have a abortion. Those who choose to have the child give it up for adoption. The laws have become less strict there, however. Now they say one is best, two is okay, more than that is not advised. They still allow people who live on farms to have more children because they need them to help with the work and such.

Answer 5

If they're girls they're dumped in the streets.
They have been known 2 rid themselves of suplus children of both sexs.
Some not nice, some really not Nice & some so down-right pitiful we've gotta wonder how on earth the Nation of China could have got theirselves in 2 such as mess!
No wonder China is fit 2 bust!

Answer 6

In more remote regions of China,some cultures do still kill females at birth,where as a son is more help in the fields.( What a shame.)

Answer 7

It's been on tv sometimes over the years, and now see the special on how many single men there are that can't get married in China (I didn't make it- I saw it on the Educational Channel).

Answer 8

No, of course not. It's a harsh policy, perhaps, but they don't kill other children, you just pay more in taxes/penalties. Some people can have as many as 3 without even that.

As it is, it applies only to urban Han -- rural Chinese and non-Han are unaffected.

Answer 9

No, they don't kill the kid, but you have to pay a lot of taxes. (And if I remember correctly, if you don't pay the tax, you have to choose to keep one, and send the other to an orphanage). In other places, they make you get an abortion.

It varies a lot from area to area... In rural China, they don't really care too much.

Answer 10

They can keep the second child it is a blessing , you can get divoriced in china and have another child in the new marriage,