Sunday, October 10, 2010

Gendercide in China

A current event that I just recently learned about that has really affected me is the gendercide that is going on right now in China. There is now a policy in China where families are only allowed to have one child to keep the population down. The population right now is just under 1.5 billion people and I read that by 2040 there will approximately be 123 trillion people living in China. Due to the high population and birth rates in China a lot of women are being forced to have abortions if they don't produce a male although they are allowed to have a maximum of two children. Todays ratio from males to females is about 128 males to 100 females. Despite the fact that I think it is wrong to kill innocent children, I understand why this needs to be done because the population is so high in China and the government is trying to figure out what they can do to get the population to decrease. I believe that this process will work because if they are more men than women, there is less women to match up with every man which means there will be less children so that the population will do nothing but go down. I also read that in 10 years, by 2020, there will be 30 million more men the women. By this happening it may produce a rise in crime, prostitution and maybe even homosexuality. It is said that men will care for the old while women will just marry into another family are cause desert into the familes that they marry into. Now knowing all of this is taking place I hope that this mass killing of young girls is going to help out the country because otherwise it was just a waste and a lot of young innocent lives were taken.

1 comment:

  1. this practice has been going on for quite some time. and i agree with your position that this ratio of men to women could cause some serious problems, such as "crime, prostitution, and maybe even homosexuality" because it throws off the natural balance and order of things.

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