So, I'm writing this research paper on the population crisis in China...

[SKKY]

...and in the process of doing the mind-numbing amount of research I have to do for this particular topic, I've come to one conclusion. If they don't stop aborting female fetus', holy shit are they screwn!

[AwakeAtLast]

1. I think it is happening already

I read a while ago that in some areas, women are so scarce that they are actually being taken and held for ransom.

However, I also read that because their economy is getting a little better, some families are paying the fee for having more than one child.

While I am like many other DUers who are wholeheartedly pro-choice, the selective abortions trouble me. I have not been able to reconcile my feelings about that.

It sounds like you have really been working hard! :hi:

[SKKY]

2. I have, and I"m finding out that this "One Child" policy is causing problems...

...that won't even be felt for 30-40 years from now. In 2050, China will have more Elderly that they will people to take care of them. Also, as China "encourages" couple to wait later in life to have children, they're going to see a dramatic rise in birth defects that their system is not, nor will be, prepared to handle. It's troubling, to say the least.

[NMDemDist2]

3. yup

I said that back when they started it.

they'll be importing Korean, Vietnamese and any other country they can bring brides in from.

it will be interesting to watch how it all pans out (in a train wreck kind of 'interesting')

[SKKY]

4. I feel dumb, and lesser of a Democrat for realizing all this this only now...

...This is some world-shaking, horrific shit I'm finding out.

[NMDemDist2]

6. i have eclectic tastes and pick up all kinds of tidbits of odd info in my travels

the China one was just another piece of trivia I carry around in my overstuffed brain

which is why I love DU so much :bounce:

my brain too stuffed with trivia tidbits to remember what I had for breakfast yesterday

now, where did I put my glasses.........

[rug]

5. It will be the first war driven by sex since the Stone Age.

[skygazer]

7. That must be interesting research

I'm familiar with the issue but have never done any in-depth research on it. It's always struck me as a situation that's bound to cause a lot of problems both now and in the future.

[SKKY]

8. The most interesting aspect of it for me is how these policies are being driven...

...without looking at the long-term consequences. For example, the town of Yicheng has been doing sort of experiment where they're allowing couples to have 2 children, but have raised the minimum marriage age, and have forced couples to wait 6 years before having children. Now, it's pretty common knowledge that the later in life women have children, the greater the risk of birth defects such as Down Syndrome (Being a father of a child with Down, I'm intimately familiar with it). Yet, they're woefully unprepared for what is certain to be a dramatic rise in birth defects, which creates a whole new dilemma.

[skygazer]

9. Wow, that's really sad

It's like using your own population to experiment on. Amazing how people don't ever seem to learn - we do things without looking carefully at the consequences or in many cases (like Vietnam or Iraq) the history, and then seem surprised when it goes wrong. And yet we keep making the same mistakes.

And I say "we" as the human race, not any particular group or country - it seems to be a pretty universal thing.

[Deep13]

10. At the risk of being callous...

...If China and India cannot get their numbers under control, they and the rest of the world have had it. Whatever the ethical concerns, having a majority male population has an advantage. Since a woman can only be pregnant once at a time whereas men can cause an unlimited number of pregnancies, it becomes a further control on the population.