Forty million Chinese without wives
By: John Russell | Source: IRN NEWS
March 10, 2004 10:30AM EST
The law of unintended consequences says that the outcome of an idea may not be what the originator had in mind. That appears to be the case as far as China’s “One Child” policy is concerned. After decades of forbidding couples in China more than one child, enforced with fines and forced abortions the Communist dictatorship is faced with a problem perhaps worse than an unmanageable growth in population, forty million unhappy bachelors. What the party bosses failed the take into account is the Chinese preference for male children. Weather detected by ultrasound and aborted in the cities or left to die of exposure after they’re born in the rural areas over forty million baby girls are not alive to grow into brides. What is the Communist Party’s solution? So far there is none.
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