Life Expectancy/pg. 354: The number of years that an average person at any age, including newborns, can expect to live
The average life expectancy of someone living in an Asian culture is around 80. That is with the assumption that someone is allowed to live. Since women live longer than men, there is a possibility that this number would be very if the population of women was equal to that of men. A lot of the women’s life expectancy is that they will not live. Many Asian girls are abandoned as babies of just a few days old, meaning that if they are not rescued, they will not survive. A lot of girls do not even get to be abandoned, because they are aborted while still in the womb. It is quite the gamble to put a life expectancy on all …show more content…
A lot of them have been living in very poor conditions. A large percentage of them come from orphanages with more than 500 children, leaving the likelihood of good health to be very low. Since the girls are not viewed as important, and are basically just a way to make money off of adoptions, there does not seem to be much need to keep them healthy up until the adoption takes place. Adopting parents do not receive health records, so they will not know if their child has disabilities or diseases until they make go to get them. Abandoned girls who have been neglected are not the only ones at health risk. There is the other extreme of being overly spoiled. Since most families only have one child they tend to spoil that child. A lot of these only children suffer from obesity. They are allowed to eat whatever they desire and their parents enable this disease. There are fat reduction camps that many children end up being sent to. Spoiled Asian children are so common that they are called “Little Emperors”. The environment one is raised in can dictate partially how their health will be. The girls who are usually treated with neglect are more likely to suffer from malnutrition, and in contrast the over desired boys are allowed to do whatever they please leading to immense irreversible health issues.
The average life expectancy of someone living in an Asian culture is around 80. That is with the assumption that someone is allowed to live. Since women live longer than men, there is a possibility that this number would be very if the population of women was equal to that of men. A lot of the women’s life expectancy is that they will not live. Many Asian girls are abandoned as babies of just a few days old, meaning that if they are not rescued, they will not survive. A lot of girls do not even get to be abandoned, because they are aborted while still in the womb. It is quite the gamble to put a life expectancy on all …show more content…
A lot of them have been living in very poor conditions. A large percentage of them come from orphanages with more than 500 children, leaving the likelihood of good health to be very low. Since the girls are not viewed as important, and are basically just a way to make money off of adoptions, there does not seem to be much need to keep them healthy up until the adoption takes place. Adopting parents do not receive health records, so they will not know if their child has disabilities or diseases until they make go to get them. Abandoned girls who have been neglected are not the only ones at health risk. There is the other extreme of being overly spoiled. Since most families only have one child they tend to spoil that child. A lot of these only children suffer from obesity. They are allowed to eat whatever they desire and their parents enable this disease. There are fat reduction camps that many children end up being sent to. Spoiled Asian children are so common that they are called “Little Emperors”. The environment one is raised in can dictate partially how their health will be. The girls who are usually treated with neglect are more likely to suffer from malnutrition, and in contrast the over desired boys are allowed to do whatever they please leading to immense irreversible health issues.