• In China, there has been a preference for boys since ancient times.
• This preference is deeply rooted in their culture, but strongly tied with financial reasons.
• Confucianism portrays males as more valuable and desirable, as they provide stability for old parents, work, and play a crucial role in the performance of rites.
• In Chinese societies it is believed that women don’t inspire stability because they leave their family to go live with their husband’s, and thus the parents have no one to look after them.
• Males work, and almost always get paid higher wages for the same work, than women. In many Chinese families, mainly poor ones, this means that women are a “[…]drain on family resources during their childhood without bringing …show more content…
One of the most common way families killed baby girls was immediately after birth by placing a piece of cloth in their face and thus preventing them from breathing.
• The way the Chinese government enforced the One-Child policy was an issue that created concern among Chinese families.
• The policy was enforced by the family planning police, who also received help from paid informants. These informants are people who informed on illegally pregnant women, and range from neighbors and friends, to family. “The family planning office kept track of these women […] and preformed a family planning raid on their neighborhoods.”
• The consequences of violating the policy, in any way, were barbaric fines higher than the household’s annual income, and if people lacked the money women had to face forced abortion, even if they were 9 months pregnant, and forced sterilization.
• Women were persuaded to go through an abortion by threats of job loss, fines, and personal harm, furthermore the ones that resisted to the abortion were arrested and forced to …show more content…
In China, mostly in rural areas of the north and south, the sex rations can be up to 140 boys for every 100 girls.
• This sex imbalance leads to another problem. “Today in China there are approximately 37 million more males than females who are sexually mature and eligible for marrying but who will not find a wife. This is called ‘bare branches.’’’
• Bare branches have propelled sex trafficking, the prostitution market and child bride kidnapping.
• Even though the main impacts are related to sex imbalance, China has another huge situation. There has been a tremendous arose in the illegal population. Families that violate the policy face a very harsh burden. The child or children that are illegal can’t obtain household registration, as a result they can’t have citizenship and are not eligible for education and healthcare. If these illegal children want citizenship, parents have to pay approximately 30,000 dollars, amount of money many Chinese families can’t afford.
• This issue is also affecting the United States, as it is confirmed that Americans have aborted babies, just because they are girls.
• The Chinese government is not planning to abandon the Two-Child policy any time soon, but there is still
• This preference is deeply rooted in their culture, but strongly tied with financial reasons.
• Confucianism portrays males as more valuable and desirable, as they provide stability for old parents, work, and play a crucial role in the performance of rites.
• In Chinese societies it is believed that women don’t inspire stability because they leave their family to go live with their husband’s, and thus the parents have no one to look after them.
• Males work, and almost always get paid higher wages for the same work, than women. In many Chinese families, mainly poor ones, this means that women are a “[…]drain on family resources during their childhood without bringing …show more content…
One of the most common way families killed baby girls was immediately after birth by placing a piece of cloth in their face and thus preventing them from breathing.
• The way the Chinese government enforced the One-Child policy was an issue that created concern among Chinese families.
• The policy was enforced by the family planning police, who also received help from paid informants. These informants are people who informed on illegally pregnant women, and range from neighbors and friends, to family. “The family planning office kept track of these women […] and preformed a family planning raid on their neighborhoods.”
• The consequences of violating the policy, in any way, were barbaric fines higher than the household’s annual income, and if people lacked the money women had to face forced abortion, even if they were 9 months pregnant, and forced sterilization.
• Women were persuaded to go through an abortion by threats of job loss, fines, and personal harm, furthermore the ones that resisted to the abortion were arrested and forced to …show more content…
In China, mostly in rural areas of the north and south, the sex rations can be up to 140 boys for every 100 girls.
• This sex imbalance leads to another problem. “Today in China there are approximately 37 million more males than females who are sexually mature and eligible for marrying but who will not find a wife. This is called ‘bare branches.’’’
• Bare branches have propelled sex trafficking, the prostitution market and child bride kidnapping.
• Even though the main impacts are related to sex imbalance, China has another huge situation. There has been a tremendous arose in the illegal population. Families that violate the policy face a very harsh burden. The child or children that are illegal can’t obtain household registration, as a result they can’t have citizenship and are not eligible for education and healthcare. If these illegal children want citizenship, parents have to pay approximately 30,000 dollars, amount of money many Chinese families can’t afford.
• This issue is also affecting the United States, as it is confirmed that Americans have aborted babies, just because they are girls.
• The Chinese government is not planning to abandon the Two-Child policy any time soon, but there is still