i got a question about china?

Question

i was just on cnn new and they were talking about them having more boys than girls... that they have a strict one child policy... why is that does any one know

it also said that some couple would abort the girls because boys are more desired

Answer 1

There are ways around the policy. I teach children of well-off parents and some of them have a brother or sister. I've also met people who have been divorced and have a child from their first marriage and now another from their second marriage. I've heard of people moving to different cities to register the birth of a second child in the hopes that the immense bureaucratic system in China won't catch the birth of a second child to the same couple. Also, certain minorities and some farmers are exempt from the one child policy. If a Chinese national marries a foreign national they can have as many children as they want by registering them as citizens of the foreigner's country. I've also heard of doctors that refuse to tell the sex of the baby to an expectant couple so they won't abort it if it's a girl since there aren't as many girls as there are boys.

A problem of this one child policy is that some areas have very few women of marriagible age around so young women are kidnapped, trafficked, or sold into marriage to men who are willing to pay the price for a bride. Since these young women are usually from the poorest classes no one seems to care what is happening to them.

Answer 2

Because they are or was overpopulated back in early 60's or 70's and that's the law over there about one child policy for a very long time. Perhaps longer...*shrugs* They are still overpopulated.
As for the male suppose to take care of the parents when they get older. Women don't have any respect like Males do. So they either abort or abandoned the girls and keep the boy if there is nothing wrong with him. So now lately they are complaining that there is not enough women for males to have a companion with.

Answer 3

Corrections: The one child policy started in 1977, so it's been 30 years now.

The one child policy is to control the population growth indeed. Back in the 50s to 70s, each family would like to have as many children as possible. Chinese people traditionally like to have many children. My grandparents from both sides of the family have 9 children in total. Imagine if the policy was not implemented, the population in China would have been over 2 billion right now...

Anyway, boys are usually preferred in China because boys would carry the family name. And having the family name continues generation after generation is very important. For example, I'm the only boy in the 3rd generation of my family, so I will have much pressure to have a son to continue my family name. So as you can see, having a boy is a proud thing for the family.

Hope this helps to clarify things for you.

Answer 4

there are also many more boys in India as well as china because many of the people are farmers and countryside workers without formal education. the parents need the boys to work the fields and to pay for the parents when old.
i notice that the educated chinese do not abort their baby girls and the tax is high on children so if a family has money they many have more than one child and if the family lives in the countryside and does farming they too may have more than one child.

Answer 5

China started the one child policy about 20 years ago, to try and control the rise in population. It mostly applied to cities , because farmers needed the children to work on the farm.

The chinese like most societies, values male children more than female, so they will abort a female fetus in order to have their one child male.

Already there is 30 million more males than females, and in the future, a lot of males will not be able to find wives, it is becoming a problem.

Answer 6

if thay don't have a strict one child policy, may be they have 1 trillion people now