Lisa’s Reviews > Better Ten Graves Than One Extra Birth: China's Systemic Use of Coercion to Meet Population Quotas > Status Update

“In one of the townships, abandoned babies sent to the civil administration department were denied because of a lack of funding, and the township had no choice but to send the babies to retirement homes (to) be taken care of by the infirm seniors.”

I want to look up how that worked out.

“(In rural China) almost 90 percent of all abandoned children were girls. This holds true in other areas of China. Between 1986 and 1992, 92% of the 16,000 children abandoned in Hunan were female…Over 87% of the female infants abandoned had no brothers.”

“the male-female birth ratio was more imbalanced for second births: (Table X)

1990: 1st 113.3 2nd 121.0 3rd or higher 127.0
1995: 106.4. 141.1 154.3
2000: 116.9. 151.9 159.4

Looking back on older fact books is fascinating because you can see how accurate population projections end up being. On page 65 Table 5 shows a graph by decade from 1990 to 2050 what populations for different ages groups were and what they might be. In 1990 people aged over were 5.6%, 2000 6.9%, and projected to be 11.5% in 2020. They under estimated. In 2021 it was 13.5%.

“.As we know, voluntary birth plans are closely related to level of education.”

Japan and China are different countries with different challenges, but one similar challenge is population vs arable land. Japan as a whole puts a lot of emphasis on education. Japan’s birth rate is historically lower 3.6 to 5.7 in 1950 and currently 1.31 to 1.19. China’s plan works, but would a focus on education be much higher?

…If a school can be built for 200,000, this could be used to build 26,000 schools for 5.2 million children…The policy… has been implemented for 23 years. How many schools have failed to been built and how many children cannot go to school?… If the entire 5.2 RMB x 23 we’re used to make education universal, the effect would be far better than the compulsory family planning policy….

“At present (2003) China boasts a total of 520,00 family planning staff…This huge army reduces China’s birth rate by 300 million. But how much do the people have to pay for this?…5.2 billion RMB…not tak(ing) into account…their bonuses and bribes they take as well as expenses for family planning facilities….

“In 1998…US asylum law (was clarified) to specifically allow victims of forced abortion and sterilization to obtain political asylum in the US.”