China’s birth rate causing ‘oops’ moment
You don’t say! Limiting people’s inherent right to have as freaking many babies as they want, creates problems in the long run?
China has 32 million more young men than young women—a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime—because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son, a study released Friday said.The imbalance is expected to steadily worsen among people of childbearing age over the next two decades and could trigger a slew of social problems, including a possible spike in crime by young men unable to find female partners, said an author of the report published in the BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal.
That’s shocking, isn’t it? Who would have thought that treating human beings like animals causes major social problems? I know I didn’t. I thought you could just mess around with society indefinitely. “Family is the cornerstone of society” is, as we all know, merely a slogal used by the radical right in order to implement a radical conservative agenda.
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Technically though it’s the combination of the government’s policy and the existing cultural preference for males that’s causing the problem. I don’t support the government mandates, of course, but it’s not exactly accurate to blame the whole problem on that when the Chinese culture is what causes the females to be aborted or abandoned.
@C Stanley: So it’s not fault of the social scientists treating a billion human beings like a Petri dish, it’s the darned people who insist on remaining members of their culture. Got it.