i feel that the one child policy helps to manage the rapid popuation growth in china, as well as to prevent overcrowding in the different countries. however, it might also be a contributing factor to the declination in population overtime, when a couple is only allowed to have one child unless the first child has a physical disability, or in some cases, is a girl, but it was even worse in the past!!! superstitious chinese couples used to (and some still do) abort the baby after they found out it was a girl, after that led to a misbalance in genders, the government finally released a rule that did not allow the parents to know of their child's gender during pregnancy, as a result, many baby girls were abandoned in the past because their parents wanted a baby boy instead ):
the attached book is for your leisure and some stories from it depicts the sadness, sufferings and pain of loss of a chinese mother who has gone through abandoning/aborting their baby girls. we found out about that book during geog and i found it interesting so i looked for it and read it. ;-; so sad..
((but, on a side note, i dont agree with the one child policy because i feel that it limits the number of children a couple can have, and if they like children, it's such a waste; also, even though it helps to manage the popuation growth, it also leads to couples getting stressed over what gender their child is))
-laet
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