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It's been one generation since the Once-child policy was introduced. I believe that in another generation, China's example will be seen as a smart and forward-
by daltonlp 17y ago
It's been one generation since the Once-child policy was introduced. I believe that in another generation, China's example will be seen as a smart and forward-thinking idea.
It'll be pretty easy to test whether I'm right or wrong. To the south of China is India, a country of comparable population size with no centralized family planning.
- wheels 17y ago> It'll be pretty easy to test whether I'm right or wrong... Whoa, there. That's assuming that all other important variables in the social dynamics happen to be identical between India and China. That's so far from the truth that it'd be difficult to make any conclusions from a sample set of those nations.
- baguasquirrel 17y agoOh even better. Then we have the effectiveness of a totalitarian free-market regime, a perversion of the Soviet communist model, vs. a social-bureaucratic regime, a perversion of the Western republican model. I can't wait for the fireworks and popcorn on this one.
- araneae 17y agoWell, the irony is that re: population control, it seems to happen naturally with the development of Western civ ideas (i.e. feminism.) China doesn't even begin to have the lowest r(growth rate); Japan has that honor, followed by Italy, then the rest of Europe. The second you give women the opportunity to work instead of raise a pack of squalling children, they seem to prefer work. However, China is very anti-feminist and is aborting all their women, thereby impeding the natural events which could lead to an even lower r. So I'm not sure it's correct to say that their lead is the best to follow if you want global r to decrease, human rights issues aside.
- forensic 17y ago>The second you give women the opportunity to work instead of raise a pack of squalling children, they seem to prefer work. Debatable. Women in the West were forced into work due to declining wages. A single income was no longer enough to support a family, and as more women went to work the other families would bid up the price of goods. Are women choosing to work or doing it out of necessity and social pressure?
- araneae 17y agoDeclining wages were the result of women entering the workforce. Think about it: hold demand for goods and services constant (after all, women, while not working, were still eating and wearing clothes) and then suddenly double the available workforce (i.e. women start going to work.) And while some women may be forced to work, and don't want to, there are a number of women who delay childrearing because of their careers. Women who have children later in life have fewer children on average. Additionally, some women choose to not raise children at all; if they didn't have the choice to work they would have to marry and have children so they wouldn't starve to death.
- catzaa 17y ago> Debatable. Women in the West were forced into work due to declining wages. A single income was no longer enough to support a family, and as more women went to work the other families would bid up the price of goods. That is debatable. A bigger problem is that living standards increased significantly. To keep these living standards (two cars per household, etc...) two people must work.
- philwelch 17y agoI would not describe Japan and Italy as particularly feministic cultures, actually. Also, selectively aborting your future female population is a great way to reduce r.