You said, “Nobody likes one child policy.” Really? Have you asked anyone in China lately? Most Chinese people I talk to are wholeheartedly sold on this policy. Chinese girls have even told me that they would only have one child if they were in America simply because “it’s the best way to go.”

Check out this article that I wrote a few months ago.
http://www.teachabroadchina.com/girls-one-child-policy/

Has the one child policy really been a net positive?

@ b.cheng

I think the already existing exception that you are referring to is for babies who are disabled or deformed at birth. It doesn’t usually apply to childhood accidents…someone correct me if I’m wrong.

And you are right…there isn’t any major shift. That is why I wrote

“However, it is in times like these, that the tragic consequences of this policy are clearly exposed to the world; it puts a price on human life, interferes with nature and controls the lives and destinies of millions of families throughout the country.”

But what’s new about this? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought there was always a similar exception. I believe that if your first child is “seriously” disabled from birth (ie: missing limb, mentally disabled, blind, deaf, etc.) you are allowed to have another child. This just goes along with the general attitude about disabled people, if anything, it doesn’t really signal a shift, they were always looked at as useless.

But it had to be done to avert a massive train wreck. Somebody had to do it. There’s no real voluntary alternative, especially given the resource constraint of China.

You are quite welcome to propose alternatives. Howeverm keep in mind that when you are poor, the solutions available to you are always two steps forward and one step back. You don’t have the luxury of the “neat” solutions.

One child policy has been a net positive, because otherwise we’d be talking something entirely different today