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Originally Posted by urgeok2
well, actually in China it's like this .. in an effort to control an out of hand population crisis in many areas you are onlu allowed to have one child.
if you have a boy - he eventually grows up, gets married - supports his parents - especially when they are older.
they dont have the social assistance like we do for older people. It's the kids that take care of the folks.
if your only child is a girl, then you've pretty much guarenteed a horrible retirement for yourself.
i do believe that like in most places - women are treated as second class citizens - but in the situation of baby girls and adoption ... it's an unfortunate survival issue.
i have this knowledge first hand...
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That was a great way to put the One Child Policy into perspective (seriously - not being sarcastic here).
In reality, the Western world (America in particular as we have decided to side with TAIWAN and not mainland China), demonizes China and the One Child Policy. While I don't necessarily agree with the legislation, the fact of the matter is, the country is so ridiculously large that China cannot actually
enforce this policy. As soon as one wanders from the major cities an into the outskirts rural life (which is the larger population of China, by the way), you see large family with more than one child. The fact of the matter is, China does not have the funds to enforce the One Child Policy nationally; it's more of a way to extract funds from the rich couples/family of the big cities (bribing runs absolutely rampant in China). Not that I
support the One Child Policy, mind you, but the legislation itself has been slanted and spun by the American media to feed into our own issues with Chinese misogyny and Civil Rights issues.
The issues that China has in terms of its female population are far more ingrained than its recently-enforced One Child Policy; as I have mentioned before in this Thread, it's not that Asia specifically targets women; it's that Asia has defines Women as being the weaker sex and as being
subservient to men, not equal. It's a more complicated subject when you actually look into its origin permeation in society. It's not that China
hates women; it's that for hundreds of years, women have been
sub-human in comparison to their male counterparts. Considering how incredibly
old this society and culture is in compared to America, it's not that easy to say,
Hey, what you've been doing for HUNDREDS OF YEARS is WRONG. Think about it in that context; it'll just take them more time to change.