Interesting/creepy view of China's reproductive meddling

[Mt_Rider]

Seems to be counter=productive when The State gets into the private matters of families/individuals.  Can you imagine even TRYING to control such a huge population? 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/opinion/china-women-birthrate-rights.html

 

 

Once The State gets the bulk going one way, seems they found it difficult to turn the tide the other way...before they run out of people!  Nation of elderly with insufficient younger generations.  Sheeesh!

 

MtRider  ....pondering again   

[snapshotmiki]

That is just way too much control to have over your people!

[Midnightmom]

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In a May 2017 survey of more than 40,000 working women ...... about 40 percent of respondents who had no children said they did not want to have any, and nearly 63 percent of working mothers with one child said they did not want to have another one.

 

The women surveyed said that the main reasons for these positions were lack of time and energy, the expense of raising children and “concerns over career development.”

 

It's the rule of "unintended consequences." And even if they decided to have a child (or a second one), who's to say that the gov't STILL wouldn't be enforcing their policy of male babies being preferred over female ones?!?!?