Sorry, silly question. The replacement rate to keep the population constant is more than 2 kids per family, everywhere in the world. China has had a 1-child policy for many years. Why isn't their population declining?
2007-05-26 19:37:40 · 10 answers · asked by zee_prime 6 in Social Science ➔ Economics
1. The rich can afford to pay the fines for having more than one kid;
2. The economy has been successful but has benefitted the
upper classes only;
3. In the countryside, there are fewer restrictions because of the demand for child labour and traditional values;
4. A preference for sons;
5. A refusal {out of political correctness} to require minorities in Xianjiang, Tibet and the Hun (eleven percent of the population) to follow with these guidelines.
I think that China should educate rural and minority women more and encourage fair distribution of household labour and jobs for women. A two-child policy would be better. They should insist on a low-protein (animal) diet and apartments instead of houses and insist on bikes more than cars. This will help. I would allow women to have two children. The consequences have been absurd: a high rate of abortion of female fetuses. There is a disproportionate number of men to women. Wives just aren't around. Women have been forced into servitude and kidnapped because of it, even prostitution. It is degrading and unfair. And men should have wives as companions in life. It is a natural human expectation.
2007-05-26 20:48:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I heard that the one-child per family policy had caused a decline in the birth rate. Chinese birth control pills for human females did not work. They doled out the pills in 13 segments which would be OK for a robot but the human menstrual cycle occurs in a 12 month series. All they had to do is create 12 dose packets, which do not have to correspond to the march of 13 Chinese months.
Those who are promoting a "new calendar" which has been in use in China for thousands of years based on 13 months which exactly the same no. of days in each month are deluded. The 12-month calendar is not only more accurate but it more reflects the interests of the humans.
2007-05-27 05:42:36 · answer #2 · answered by Chatty82 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The opinion expressed below is my own!!
Actually, when speaking about China, we should distinguish between two different Chinas, i.e. the developed, say, to some extent western-valued South and South-Eastern China, and the other China, the traditional China, which is mainly engaged in agriculture and might be characterized with low level of education. The 1-child policy could be succesfully implemented if the nation itself had full understanding of the concept and readiness to change conservative way of living. This is somewhat applicable to the "first China", but, in my opinion, not for the rest, which happenes to be the vital majority. For this reason we observe population growth in China and, on the contrary, population aging in Europe.
2007-05-27 00:38:48 · answer #3 · answered by ArArAt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The population falls when the death rate is greater than the birth rate. There are fewer old people (who are the ones that die) than there are people of child baring age because of the population explosion that took place before the 1 child policy went into effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chinapop.svg
The 1 child policy actually resulted in a fertility rate of about 1.7 not 1 child per woman.
2007-05-26 20:11:42 · answer #4 · answered by meg 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Increasing medical standards are keeping people alive longer, and the "1 child" policy is not old enough or strict enough to have had a major effect yet.
2007-05-26 23:00:21 · answer #5 · answered by speakout_dot_biz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is because the base number is very large. But the increase has slowed dramatically. India went from 1 Billion to 1.1 Billion in just 10 years.
2016-05-18 23:07:16 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe ´cause not everybody follows the policy. i mean how do they want to make sure that all of the people don´t have more than 1 kid?
2007-05-26 19:49:05 · answer #7 · answered by hiddentalentt 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the old live very long. Also you just can't make someone have one kid, if you go over that one kid rule you will have to pay a fine for each one you have.
2007-05-26 19:44:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
divorce and marry again and again, then it will create more than one family. Therefore, the population is kept increasing.
2007-05-26 20:13:05 · answer #9 · answered by Meow Meow 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
people are still having sex. hidden or not.
2007-05-27 17:19:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋