What do you think about the China "One-child" policy ?

I rised this debate because this article
http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?aid=10770

Before to take part in the debate, I should like to give you some facts
http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?aid=10841

Mao Zedong made nothing to limit the size of the population. He wa from a farmer family, and in the countryside, one means two arms for the farm. In addition, he thank that the more China is populous, the more its weight in the wolrd could be more important.

But when Deng Xiaoping took the power in December 1978, he launched the "four modernizations" programm and opened China to foreign investors. But the rise of GNP was counterbalanced by the rise of the population, so It's the origine of the One-child policy.

Only the urban are obliged to apply the "One-child policy" and the ethnic minorities are not. In the rural areas, the peasants can have a second child if the first is a girl.

In total, only 35,9 % of the population are limited to one child only.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/ article_1328513.php/Only_36_per_cent_of_Chinese_families_held_to_one- child_policy

What the main concern for older Chineses is, with the "one child policy" who will take care of them.

The poor new babies don't kown what will be their burden
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6222586.stm<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/08/23 19:17

25 August 2007

Linsi yesterday (24 August 2007) posted an article about Yuan Weijung denied to go to the Philippines
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070824/tpl-uk-china-activist- 9e08e31_4.html

She is the wife of Chen Guangcheng who was beaten in jail by other prisonners
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6230148.stm

What was his crime ? just to denounce

FORCED ABSORTIONS IN CHINA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4262890.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/941511.stm

One of the main problem about the &quot;One child policy&quot; is

THE IMBALENCE BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6962650.stm<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/08/25 02:42

Yes, no one seems to wonder who their sons will be marrying. What I find aggravating is that the dearth of females, FARRR from giving them a bit more leverage, is having the opposite effect. Kidnappings and selling of women for brides, look at India, a teenage girl was beheaded for refusing to sleep with all the bros of her husband. China of course is so vast that the policies of the government just don't extend to the countryside, it's business as usual. Sons to care for you in your old age. Nothing personal girls, just business, as the mob likes to say when they whack you.

THE ONE-CHILD POLICY PUT THE PRESSURE ON THE CHILDS BECAUSE THEIR FAMILIES ARE ACCOUNTING TOO MUCH ON THEM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7001561.stm