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[MamaLema]

I can't seem to get it to cut and paste so everyone can read the article................................................................................................................................................................................................................... I read this today from metronews.ca.

This makes me so sad. Basically it states that if you're wealthy, you're allowed to ignore the one-child rule. Just another example of the rich getting everything they desire. BTW, there is a government imposed "social maintenance fee" as high as $18,600 per extra child.

What do you think?

I will post the whole article below:

 

[Tigger_Magic]

China is just slowly discovering the communism does not work, but capitalism does. Just like in America, the more successful and financially capable you are, the more you are able to do/enjoy. I don't understand the need to "demonize" success (i.e., "another example of the rich getting everything they desire.").

 

[Mom2be]

This isn't new news. In fact most the children that are "given up" or "abandoned" in China come from the poorer providences where the income is based on farming and there isn't availablity to contraceptives. Or families that know they can only afford one child and have a girl first (boys are preffered because they can help with the farm).

http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.17813/article_detail.asp

The one-child policy was enacted in 1979 under Deng Xiaoping. As China's economy developed throughout the 1980s and '90s, the enforcement of the one-child law actually became stricter. Despite periodic speculation that China might scrap the policy, the Communist Party Central Committee affirmed in 2001 that it was happy with the policy and intended to leave it in force.

It is a sad reality that this exist in a country today and we have only begun to see the effects of this policy. For istance since there are many more boys in comparisson to girls it is hard for men to find a wife. And these children that were first effected in 1979 are now my age (26) and are getting married and having children of their own.

There are several theroies that the WEST actually encourages China to keep the program due to the huge number of adoptions that happen through China. It is beneficial financially to both the Chinese government and the country the adoption takes place in. As sad as that may be. However to the parent adopting a child none of that matters when you see your child and finally hold it in your arms.

There are so many children in need of good homes which is why my DH and I have decided that this biological child I am pregnant will be the only one we conceive. Any further children are going to be adopted.

Just by the way most children in Russia, Guatemala, and many other countries are up for adoption due to economic reasons as well, not just China.

~Amanda

 

[Tigger_Magic]

This is a similar story from Reuters...

BEIJING, Dec 14 (Reuters) - China's growing upper class has the means to trump the one-child policy and simply pay out out to have extra children, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.

A survey had shown that 40 percent of people in the world's most populous country dreamt of having more than one child, Xinhua said, but few could afford to do so because of government-imposed "social maintenance fees" as high as 150,000 yuan ($18,600) per extra child.

Chinese officials credit the one-child policy with avoiding 300 million births, equal to the population of Europe, over 30 years, though the country's population has continued to grow.

The restrictions have also bolstered a traditional preference for baby boys and came under fire from western countries and human rights activists.

"Although many people cherish the dream of having more than one child, only a handful of the new rich can make the dream come true," Zhang Yi, a researcher with the Institute of Population and Labour Economy under the China Academy of Social Sciences, was quoted as saying.

Zhang called the social maintenance fee "a passport for the wealthy to have more children" and called for the fines to be levied in proportion to families' incomes.

China has repeatedly issued warnings over the dramatic and growing divide between the country's haves and have-nots, a preoccupation of Communist leaders struggling to tread a path of balanced economic reforms and social stability.

Earlier this year, the financial hub of Shanghai loosened control on couples having a second child, leading to media speculation that wider reforms of the one-child rule, launched in the early 1980s to curb China's population, could be coming.

But the rich do not have to wait.

"I already have three children and if I had three more I would be financially capable of raising them all," a millionaire businessman surnamed Yu was quoted as saying.

"More children means more choices, from which I will choose the most qualified heir to look after my family property."

Xinhua reported the phenomenon as a new form of keeping up with the Joneses.

"China's 'nouveaux rich' are not only competing with each other to buy grandiose mansions and fast, expensive cars, their latest status symbol is a brood of children," the report said.

"Some wealthy people are even emigrating abroad for the sole purpose of having a second or third child whom they bring back to raise in China." ($1=8.070 Yuan)

I still don't see anything wrong with someone who is successful doing what they want to with the money they earned.