I had a chance to read on it a little. China still has a strong policy to control population. They use economical rewards to encourage families to have a limited number of children. For example, the families that limit themselves to only one child receive free day care, better housing, food coupons, etc. China is still on course to have negative population growth in the future, despite the fact that it would cause a shift in the population to more people falling into the over 60 years old category in relation to the population as a whole. Many of the over 60 years old population would be without any younger generation to help them, but that is a sacrifice that must be made to get population growth rate back in line with what the world can sustain.
I remember seeing something on TV about china's one child policy, whereby mothers who became pregnant with a second child were required to have an abortion, and during the abortion procedure were sterilized, or something like that. Anyway, the problem of overpopulation is fixable, and where the cause/effect problems of overpopulation can be identified, overpopulation should be fixed. Regards, LelandJ Pete Theisen wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 12:53, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > >> There are much better solutions of overpopulation than war, murder, >> genocide, or natural disasters. China, for example, instituted social >> programs to create a negative overall population growth going forward >> into the future. Each family in China is limited as to the number of >> children they can have. I haven't looked this up on the Internet, >> > > Hi Leland! > > You should look before you post. There have been print reports that the one > child policy was seriously abused by overzealous and uneven enforcement. > People's homes were bulldozed and they were set homeless with a baby on the > way if they became pregnant with a second child and refused to get an > abortion, or the woman was simply aborted by force. If the women were getting > pregnant a second time, obviously they were not being sterilized. > > While this was happening, other people were allowed to have large families! > > The one child policy is no longer in force, China became aware that it was > leading to a graying of the population. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
