Chinese Birth Control Laws

You, a six-year-old girl from China, have a pretty good life. You are just learning to read Mandarin in kindergarten and have many little friends. One day, your mother, Li Mei, picks you up after school with some exciting news; she’s pregnant. You start to feel very excited about your new baby brother on the way. That night, your father pulls up in the driveway riding his bicycle after completing a fourteen hour shift. He has some not-so-good news. The factory that he worked at making silk was now shutting down for budgetary reasons and they weren’t even paying the workers for the last month of service. Money was already tight in your family but after this you can barely afford to stay in the one bedroom apartment that is your home. Because of the monthly fines that the government of China will put on them for having more than one child, your parents have no choice but to give you to an orphanage or leave you out on the street and try to forget about their first child. This is just one of the many times a family has been torn apart due to China’s one birth policy. This is just one of the many reasons this policy is a horrible answer to a not-so serious problem. This so-called “solution” has skewed the male to female population in China, caused many unnecessary riots and deaths, and destroyed families and their lives.

The first thing that is wrong with this awful decree is that it has completely wreaked havoc on the girls and male/female statistics in China. Because the world today is still a sexist place where it is hard for a woman to get ahead, when families an only choose one baby, they want it to be a boy not a girl. This is a horrible reality which is completely morally unjust as women can do just as much as men (and in high heels,) but it is a reality none the less. The average male to female ratio for the entire world is 106 females to 100 males. In China it is 100 females to 114 males, a difference of 20 males. Because China is such a huge country, this is not just spoiling China’s records, but the worlds records as well. This is also completely unfair to all the orphaned or aborted girls who can’t help their sex or the world they come into.