Chapter 9-Response

Dodson makes several intriguing points about Chia’s population problem and its one-child policy. I was first taken aback by the one-child policy itself. I didn’t know what it was necessarily before reading besides that it limited families. The fact that it limits the number of children that parents can have to one birth and if it isn’t a son then you can try for another two years without penalty aka fines is ridiculous. Who fines for children? The overpopulation of China is a problem, but I don’t think that that should give the government the right to limit the amount of children a woman is entitled to and depending on gender the child could be fined. Girls are pretty much worthless in comparison to guys because guys can actually provide. The fact that brothers were turned against each other because of this policy is crazy. Government is interfering with normal things that here in America we are given. Government officials forced an abortion in order for this man to still qualify for acceptance into Canada. They are still waiting. It is frustrating that these people don’t have rights, that we often take for granted here in the U.S. Then you have the problem of love and marriage. In China, children were married off to older men in order to guarantee a more successful. It was less about love and more about money, stability.