Also, even where second children are currently allowed to be born (to children of the one child policy) you have to get some kind of permit? license? something like that before you have the baby or you still get fined.
Yeah, iirc there are something like 56 ethnic Chinese groups and this only applied to one of them. That one group being about 90% of the population though.
They are just less popular. People don’t like to adopt them as much. The difficult to place children are siblings, those with learning difficulties, social problems, physical handicaps or health issues, older children (read: children, not babies), boys and ginger children.
The three great years of famine were indeed due to those policies, but China’s historically had food supply issues throughout its history. The one child policy had exceptions for farmers who were allowed two children so as to be able to maintain a food supply for the increasing number of urban citizens.
There’s an interesting side-point to this. Western adoptors have a huge gender preference for girls when it comes to adoption. I remember an executive for an adoption agency on the BBC once saying that realistically, a ginger boy over the age of 7 or so will never be adopted and they have to set the child’s…
I’m afraid it’s just one of those useless facts in my brain. There’s a wiki page on it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_…) and if you google “QI adoption in Japan” you’ll get a video of Stephen Fry talking about it, but other than that, sorry.
You can thank Stephen Fry for it (soon to be replaced by Sandy Toksvig). QI is a great place to learn random things that come in handy later.
Gender selective abortions is a pretty big thing. It’s illegal for a doctor in China to tell a parent the sex of their child during pregnancy. That doesn’t stop it happening, though. Bribery is common.
A side-note. Adoption is huge in Japan. It’s one of the highest adopters in the world. Of course, 98% of those adoptions are of adult men, but that’s another story.
The Party in the business world in China is everything. You can’t get anything done without Party approval and with Party approval you can do anything.
Yes, but they didn’t anticipate the gender-selective abortions. A doctor in China is forbidden to let you know the gender of the child in advance, however, slip a couple of thousand RMB to a nurse and you will know anyway.
“Then there is the inequality of the policy. The wealthy have always been able to have as many children as they wanted. They simply had to pay a fine to have extra children.”
It also dragged them out of poverty and made them the largest economy on the planet. This generation’s grandparents went through periods where tree bark and grass were staples because they were so poor*
When you’re at that point pick up lines are probably unnecessary.
How’s the bootheel taste citizen?
Good.
Alternative theory:
One partner lies about sexual history is not news.
Here my natural inclination to shout at people who exert authority over others’ bodies is overruled by my knowledge that “You’re not going out in that!” is both a traditional and necessary rebuke to adolescents.