Since Chinas one child policy worked to stop mass starvation in China, should other countries adopt it?
China is now allowing many families to have a second child. They suddenly found that the growing ageing population had too few young workers to support it, so it is the pensioners who are in danger of starving. It is nothing to do with the aesthetics of removing aunties, uncles and cousins at one fell swoop, or of many girls “accidentally” dying at birth (suspected drowned in buckets conveniently left at maternity hospital bedsides because boys were valued more), so that now there are not enough girls to provide wives for the young men. No, it has all to do with money and the fact that one child when grown up is replacing two. This reduces the work force by half, and the salaries needing to be paid, but also reduces by half the contributions to taxes – the money available to the state, and to pensions. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/worl… The One Ch
