Bachmann warns that Obama might limit one child per family similar to China's policy (cost, state)

[cruxan]

Originally Posted by InsaneTraveler

My roommate is 44. He is not a kid by any means. He lived in China until he was 18 and has lived in America ever since.

The USA does not need forced abortions as we have plenty of land and resources to care for the children being born into our world.

^^^^^ for how long?? every place has a limit, including the earth...

[slackjaw]

Originally Posted by Sawdustmaker

If you like cheaply made crap in your house, that's your problem.

Open up the case of the computer you are typing on and look at the parts.

Then be careful while dismounting from high horse, don't want to sprain anything.

[DeafChick]

How is this shocking? Open a newspaper sometime and you'll read stories like this when families in China can't afford the fine.

[GregW]

Another fine example of "Shock and Awe". The problem is some of us do not Shock easily and are in Awe of very little.

IMHO China has made a great mistake with its One Child policy because they did not take into account the financial advantage to the parents of a male child. The result has been a large imbalance in the male/female ratio. this will become obvious in this and the next couple of generations as women will become increasingly valuable because a single male without a male child will just a SOL when he gets old as a childless couple.

I would suggest that china institute a universal retirement/pension policy to remove the need for surviving children to take care of the elderly. China’s current economy is now prosperous enough to afford this policy.

As far as excess female, and male, children being forced into the “sex trade” are concerned that is more a function of the father’s debt than any excess children. Why do you think there are so many preadolescent girls available for hire in Thailand for the Limpdicks of the world to play with? They are out there working off their daddy’s debt to the local loan shark. This is just another form of slavery that needs to be ended.

[Edmund_Burke]

Overpopulation is only a concern for socialistic nations. Countries with much freer economics can cope with any pop. number.

With that said, Malthusians are troglydytes----there's no room for reason with them.

[mwruckman]

People should have the question, what choice does the Chinese government have in this matter? Would you rather have a desperate nation of over 2 billion people ( in other words 10 or more people for evry one American) needeing everything from water,to food clothing and every other basic of life. I nation armed with nuclear weapons and missiles. We should thank the Chinese government for making hard but realistic choices and sparing us the China we could of had.

[TriMT7]

Originally Posted by cruxan

^^^^^ for how long?? every place has a limit, including the earth...

Prosperity usually results in a decline in fertility rates.

The countries with massive population growth rates tend to be really poor and lack education and family planning.


In the USA, we'd have flat to minimal population growth if we didn't have immigration. Unfortunately, many of our "uninvited immigrants" routinely pop out 4 or more... but that just goes back to the "poor and uneducated" thing.

[GregW]

Back in the 70's I figured the US population would level off at 260 to 270 million. Instead we are over 300 million and still growing. Too bad because a less crowded place with better paid workers would have been a delight.

[DRob4JC]

Originally Posted by GregW

Back in the 70's I figured the US population would level off at 260 to 270 million. Instead we are over 300 million and still growing. Too bad because a less crowded place with better paid workers would have been a delight.

We aren't crowded - people choose to live in populated areas - go to the midwest, plenty of space.

We don't necessarily need better paid workers - but an environment where people have the ability to work in order to fund their own needs and wants.

[DRob4JC]

Another effect of China's policy - mass suicides of women.

China One Child Policy Results in High Female Suicide Rate

According to the World Bank and the World Health Organization, there were approximately 500 female suicides per day in 2009.

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Many observers believed that violence against women and girls, discrimination in education and employment, the traditional preference for male children, birth-limitation policies, and other societal factors contributed to the high female suicide rate.