Re-thinking China's 'One Child per Household' Law
Some demographers say the damage is already done. In 1979, China enacted the 'one child per household' law. Of course exceptions are made if the one child is (god forbid) a girl. And families who live out in the sticks can have more than one child. But now, after officials killed a 7-month old fetus, the law is currently up for debate. The elderly population is so disproportionately large, the younger generations can't afford their expensive health care bills. Economists say even if they repeal the law today, the next 30 years of elderly healthcare is unaffordable. There simply aren't enough workers to pay for it. When you tell a couple they can have another child if their first is a girl, what do you think happens to a vast majority of the girls? Ya, they get shipped out. So now, there's a ton of unmarried men, and the women who are of child-bearing age grew up in a society where one child was the norm. It was the ideal, and t...