China's one child policy; what's going to happen 10 years from now?

I don’t know about Ten? But In another two hundred years… We might catch up to them in population *and hopefully pay off our debt too?

“When they have a great deal of men wanting to marry”. I lol’d.

Well, isn’t the point of this to slow things down a bit? Why would they go from having way too many people to not having enough? I don’t think it works that way. 10 years? Maybe it’ll have an impact in 75 to 100, but I doubt that, too.

@Blackberry ROFLMAO!

A lot of them emigrate just so they can get more kids. Eventually they will look for these to see if they have girls for marriage.

@Blackberry Young women are already being kidnapped and sold as wives.

You’d think it would have a population decline after one generation. How long has the policy been in affect?

“A preference in Chinese families for boys over girls has created a surplus of 24 million men who will not be able to find a wife to marry.”.

Females babies are being adopted out to the other countries, aborted, killed (the dying room), and hidden, mostly.

@Jude The female babies have developed the habit of being in more accidents than the male babies as well.

Luckily, my niece was adopted out to a wonderful family in Canada (my sister and brother-in-law).

My niece was found in a basket, wrapped in a towel at the bus stop Guandong.

Why is there such a drought of women in a place with that many people?

Do you understand what the one child policy is all about?

Who me? After reading about, yes. It also says that it has been in effect for quite a while, so that may explain the drought. so I guess it is possible this could be a problem, but it’s hard to believe a place with that many people is even having this problem.

@Blackberry There’s also a slanted effort to have male children so they abort and or abandon some females. It would probably make an interesting study of how this affects the population over time.

@Adirondackwannabe Oh, yeah I just looked up and saw that, why the hell would they do that?

@Blackberry A male child can take care of the parents plus the parents have to come up with a dowry of sorts for a female child. Wacked.

@Adirondackwannabe Well, it’s not the best system, but apparently many of them agree with it, not that that makes it any better, though.

There are bound to be fewer workers in the future making it harder for factories to fill jobs maybe. Laborers will be at a premium with Chinese companies competing for people to work. That may translate to wage hikes to get the help they need. If they have to pay enough and, the rate at which American companies are in a mad race to the bottom where wages are concerned , it may start to equal out or at least get close enough to where it is just as attractive to keep jobs stateside.

Just a theory.