Here to Stay

The one-child policy is stabilizing the population growth, but it is producing a dangerous imbalance between boys and girls and where traditional thought prevails that boys are of greater value than girls, it is resulting in great suffering for mothers and their daughters.

There was some hope that China would give up the one-child policy, but a ruling was just handed down saying that it would continue, as we see by the following article.

One-child policy to stay despite experts' critique (April 11, 2012, Shanghai Daily)’

China aims to stabilize its population at about 1.39 billion people by 2015 by sticking to the existing family planning policy, dampening experts' hopes of an unwinding of the tough rules, according to a plan the central government posted on its website yesterday. The central government projected that during the next five years the nation's population will grow more slowly due to a drop in the number of fertile women in their 20s. The number of elderly people will keep rising, and the labor population will reach a peak and then decline slowly. The elderly population will increase quickly at first as people born in the nation's first baby boom in the 1950s enter their old age. China reached a milestone last year when the government announced that, for the first time, the urban population surpassed the rural one.

Untold suffering has resulted from this policy, but there will be social problems that will result in suffering in the years to come, when upwards of 30 million young men won’t be able to find wives. Some even predict that this imbalance could be a factor in another world war.