Why China's One-Child Policy is a tragedy like no other | DOCUMENTARY DEEP DIVE
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Relying on computer simulations that map out the changing family structure in China, we can predict the disastrous effects the One-Child Policy (1980-2015) will have on the nation.
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Hi all, seeing a lot of comments about overpopulation. AEI scholar Michael Strain made a very brief video on that topic, and it seems like a good time to share it again:
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He talks about efficiency and capitalism. Both are great no doubt, but they are exactly the reason why earth is overpopulated. If USA and Europe consumed the resources per capita of Bangladesh especially energy wise there would be no global warming. the average american probably throws away in a week the plastic that the average Bangladeshi thows out in a year. 100 years ago oil gushed out of Pennsylvania and Texas soil. now all that easy oil was pumped out dry 50 years ago and it takes pumping chemicals in fracking and lateral drilling, deep water offshore drilling etc. When California had a population of 5 million water was an afterthought, Phoenix, Las Vegas etc. now they need extreme water conserveration measures. Did you know some places en Houston have sunk 2 feet? the reason being so much water being pumped out of the aquafurs. China practically took over Tibet over their future access to water and in the future the countries downstream to those rivers like Vietnam, Cambodia etc will be in huge water problems. do some research on the metals that will run out by the 2030s or will become incredibly expensive as they are running out. Brazil is burning and cutting down thousand of acres of Amazon forest per day to grow livestock and Soy. Soy that they export to China. What about the near future and 20 30 years from now. Automation and artificial intelligence are coming for millions of jobs in the USA alone. no truck drivers, no uber drivers, little retail. I can go on all day with arguments. Efficiency and capitalism are great but when China and India reach the wealth per capita of the USA we will need 3 planet earths to sustain the need for food and commodities. so yeah that video makes a strawman argument not addressing the real problems and facts.
Ah-emh... natural... resources...
The video you are linking to consists of 60 seconds of one-sided political propaganda without any real global statistics or forecasts.
@@andrewj4426 I agree with most of what you've written, but AI might be a blessing. A Socialist/Communist government would need to make sure those thrown out of work were not allowed to starve. Job sharing could mean a couple of days a week on one job, a couple on another, with a basic income sufficient for living. We have allowed ourselves to forced into 6/7 day working weeks just to "grow the economy". And we know who benefits the most from our labour!
@@andrewj4426 Individuals in western nations consume many times more than do the people of Bangladesh. But, unlike the Bangladeshis, the westerners restrained their reproduction. Our earth can support many people in poverty, or it can support many people in a high standard of living. Our earth cannot support a large population consuming as the westerners do. Western countries must stop importing migrants and giving them a high level of consumption.
A side effect that wasn't mentioned in the documentary is how the one child policy affects it's neighboring countries. Human trafficking of women, girls, and infants from border-sharing countries like Myanmar and Vietnam is a massive problem.
If the Chinese men want to find ‘Chinese’ women even though there aren’t any in China then they will probably try and find some abroad like in America and the uk. Oh well I’m in trouble 😂
What does human trafficking have to do with one child policy?
@@rebeccawhite8459 China has one of the world's worst gender imbalances and there aren't enough women of marrying age for all the men. This means women of marrying age are sought from other regions and countries, particularly in impoverished areas. Some women are offered money to send home to their families and go willingly, but many are kidnapped and sold against their will to desperate husbands.
@@ilikeudonnoodles Some men might have the money to do that, but definitely not most of them.
@@rebeccawhite8459 Come on Rebecca. Do the math.
If women (under 40) are the only child, she still has/feels the social/moral obligation to care for both parents and four grandparents but if she marries it will be her responsibility to help her husband care for his parents and his four grandparents. Then who cares for her family? So some women don’t get married, even though they want to, because they feel like they will be abandoning the family they have to start a new family. It’s also hard to find a rich man able/willing to take care of 12 aging adults, a wife and a child!
This is something I never thought of. Thank you for adding this insight.
Society needs to change. Women should not be the servants of the in laws. They say men 'take care' of the parents but that seems to be only money, nothing else. Women can make money too and if they make less than men that's another problem. Other countries have old people/parents too and even people without children are taken care of to a certain extent. It can be changed but China seems to not want to do a lot.
So glad I wasn't born in China.
Had the CCP had some women in the decision making process of the one child policy, they may have been able to point out that the massive preference for male children was going to skew the population. But the decisions were made by the very group that had been adored, pampered and idolised and so millions of female babies were murdered.
Now there is not just the disproportionate gender balance, there are fewer babies being born and insufficient wives around to care for the ageing relatives and make the boys happy, so women are bought from, or kidnapped from, other Asian countries to make up the shortfall
Whodathunk
@@jandrews6254 sums it up quite well
My childhood friend died recently in his mid-30s, unmarried with no child. His parents had him in their 30s. At that time, ccp encouraged people to have kids late. He is the only child in the family. His parents now are very depressed and in a deep grief. There are many families lost their only child in China. This is one of the worst feeling someone can have.
There's also another problem with having 1 child. There's NO guarantee when the child is old enough to marry, that they would not ONLY marry, but also reproduce. Not every human that exists or will exist in the future, has/would have the desire to marry/reproduce. On top of that as you mentioned, a tragedy could happen and they lose their child.
@@jayc1139 Agreed. I'm an only child, only grandchild, only niece...in my mid thirties, not yet married and not sure if I even want children...sometimes it cam be a burden 😔
@@racpatrice i had my first child this year by the age of 30 one month before my birthday I am an only child my mother is not but my only cousin has biological problems having children and we are en old aristocratic Familie and I can not understand what you mean by presure I am bound by blood to let my Familie line life on and if I had to pay 10000€ for a surrogate mother I would have done that by the age of 35 people need to plan way ahead and uphold their dutys to their families which took care of them feed them teached them and otherwise put in alot of effort and time so the Familie line could life on
Agreed, the most painful irony of life. I Pray they find hope and happiness.
@@yuriel6691 that is what they mean by pressure, the pressure to have children so that the family line can live on shtick.
I’m Singaporean but my mother is from china(born in 1979). She is an only child. She came to Singapore in her early twenties to find a job and happened to meet my dad, got married, and had me. Now that I think of it, I’m really lucky to have maternal grandparents who aren’t “traditional” and thinking that girls are worse than boys. I really hope that the girls who was abandoned because of their gender can be adopted by a better family.
I wish the same, but in modern countries they are aborted when the sex is known.
unfortunately the adoption industries are fucked and usually white couples who adopt have white saviorism mentality
I am European but I, by happenstance, come from 4-2-1 type family. I was the first child born in my immediate family in 28 years, with no births since. I have been to one wedding my whole life (I'm 27) and only because a distant cousin I did not know wanted a big wedding and invited nearly 300 people. Every school break my grandparents made demands I come to stay with them (She our only grandchild!). I could go an entire summer barely talking to another chil and it showed at school. My interests were very insular so I didn't fit in. It is torture to see my grandparents age and weaken until they are unrecogliseable and I have always known since very young that one day they would all die and I would be alone - cue immense self-inflicted pressure to find a mate, cue endless pressure to succeed and have good grades and be a career woman. It is soul crushing and I am now determined to have at least two children if it kills me and will not hesitate to put them before my parents
This is different from my life. I have 4 siblings.butbbeofre we moved our grandpa used to visit us everyday and vice versa, and our parents always joke around on once we're old enough to start working they have 5 different cash outlets to use. But just remember YOU GOT THIS
That's a very touching story. Thanks for sharing.
Best of luck for you!
I am pretty sure that the pressure to form a family, and the pressuro to have a good career, are opposite of each other....
@@Origami84 they all had opinions, opinions that often contradicted each other. Although the pressure to have a carreer was stronger, they wanted me to do both, have both, somehow, like a good "modern" woman. Family is important, because values and stuff, but these people love money, so also carreer
@@CristinaGarcia-xx4gy Gee. No wonder a woman, at one point, says "effe this" and focus only on her job and her leisure. No matter what she does, there will be complaints.
This is sad, but this is the reason why we shouldn't have kids for them to look after us in old age, we bring children into this world to be loved not to burden them. Children don't have a choice being bought into this world, they don't owe us anything.
That is only possible if there is a sufficient program of social saftey nets for the seniors!
If the then current seniors saved money they wouldnt have to rely on their children and could pay for care. I understand now that isnt the case and would have to rely on government programmes but going fowards that would make sense.
You're supposed to care about your aging parents.
Who else would be able to look after the old generation than the young generation? Sure, you can have pension & health care schemes, save money for your old age, but in the end if you are old and need someone to buy your groceries or help you out of the tub - or just to drive the economy so your retirement savings pay off - there need to be enough young people who are able to do that. In the West we may not have to rely solely on our own descendants for everything, but on a societal level, we are just as screwed with a shrinking population as the Chinese are...
this is backwards...today we are burdening children by bringing them into a world with no duty or purpose
taking care of your elders is central to the human experience and it brings the most important thing to health besides food and shelter.....meaning
half of todays problems are cause by a lack of meaning...and children that are made to feel like the center of the world...aren't better parents, they just keep being selfish
This video of a warning for those who think Social Engineering at an epic national level is ever a good thing.
It’s a good thing if you don’t want your population to live in severe poverty
@@suedimurekezi7221 if you give people freedom and eliminate greed, then you won't have to worry about starvation generally. Most modern famines are man-made, and the ones that aren't can be strategically planned for if the super rich aren't just worried about accumulating wealth for themselves
It's interesting you choose the terminology "social engineering", and while I won't say that the one child policy was a good plan on any level, it's not always fair to judge a culture before you understand the factors that drive the social and political policies of a nation or culture.
@@RCButterfly Generally you are correct, but I kinda draw the line on forced abortions. That kinda policy is cruel and has no justification whatsoever.
@@oakinwol That is total bs. Always blaming all your problems on the rich. No. Sometimes governments need to step in and say: Hey, you don't need 7 kids, you can barely feed yourself.
I said back in the 1970's when they were planning this malarkey, and I've said it since and I'll say it now: It won't work. It will result in many males having no wives, only the richest who can afford to pick a girl. It will result in other males importing brides from places like Cambodia or Thailand, etc., which will replace many of the females denies life. Fewer people working and paying taxes only increases the control the totalitarian government has. The only ones to benefit, though arguably not much, are those females who survive to adulthood and will have their pick of many single males, since the single males will outnumber the single females by many times. The few who remain will have to take care of the elderly, either physically or economically or both. The government of the PRC was shortsighted and borderline stupid. Piss on this policy.
Look, I absolutely understand the need to control the population. Overpopulation is a serious issue that other nations have to struggle with. However, the one child policy was always an incredibly short-sighted solution that completely ignored the social and demographic implications of only allowing one child per couple. It baffles me that anyone anywhere ever thought it was a good idea.
It's very surprising that the leaders of such a patriarchal society could not foresee some of the problems a one-child policy would bring. But then again, communist governments are full of yes-men, so ...
Is over population a serious issue? There are entire abandoned cities in Asia..... I would say lack of economic planning and overcrowding city centers are more of the problem.
@@sbabywhine At the time the one child policy was set up, it was a threat to China. To pit it simply, a huge population would put an evergrowing strain on the nation's resources like food, water and land. Now the issue is that their population is going to shrink super fast and that's going to cause big problems.
@@bobi200samatar6 that's what I'm implying though.... there wasn't a shortage of usable land in China, there was in center cities. Like mentioned in the video, people from rural areas illegally immigrating to city centers? That coupled with poor economic planning leads to issues. At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist but there are tons of valid research that plainly state that overpopulation is not actually a threat. Especially since fertility is declining because of environmental and pharmaceutical (consqunses of long term effects) factors.
@@sbabywhine Fair enough. I'm no Chinese history expert, I just wanted to say that the one child policy was a shit idea no matter how you slice it.
The one child policy was not the biggest problem, but the traditional thinking that a boy is better and can take care of the elderly. Now all these girls which have been aborted or adopted are missing and is creating an unbalance. There should be a system in place that the elderly have a pension. Not put all the burden on that 1 child. That's crazy.
Exactly right, maybe now the Chinese will finally learn to value their daughters!
@@strawberryshortcake4342 Oh they're starting to, most assuredly. Especially since, even the two child policy hasn't worked and boys are still being favored... So...they've added a three child policy, as of about a month ago. They did it in hopes of the people not aborting their girls and are putting up propaganda posters about not aborting their girls and pro-family posters all over the country lol. We'll see how it turns out... smdh
the pension isn't goint to work on a system that has more elderlies and less workers putting money in the pension program. yes, the one child policy is a problem and China knows it that's why they are revising it
Exactly
Forcing women to abort children at gun point isn't the "biggest problem"? Is this a joke?
Sure, blame the parents when the government is literally kidnapping women and forcing abortions on them.
"But let's blame the mom".
What happens 60 years from now when entire family lines have come to an end, your parents and grandparents are dead. You are last of your line. Who will take care of you in a family centered society?
Yes that's exactly why being an only child sucks and vulnerable
My aunt died during a forced abortion in the 1970s, she was having her 5th child. It was cruel.
so sad.. :*(
there is such a thing as following policies in china
I was born and raised in China till I was 13 and then moved to Canada and received western education until I obtained my doctorate. I periodically return to China and visit and spend summers there. Here is what I have experienced, out of my junior high class of 50 in a urban Chinese midsized city, about half were girls and half were boys, all of us were loved and treasured by our parents, we are the first generation of kids under the one child policy, but in our class of 50, 3 people had siblings, no they weren’t hidden, they weren’t prosecuted, their parents simply paid a 5000 yuan fee(800 usd) for not complying with national policy, and these parents are business people, they didn’t work for the government, if you worked for the government as any sort of civil servant you would have lost your job for not complying with national policy but that’s it, if you really wanted to have more children you could. This is why people living in the countries, my extended family included, often have more than one kid, because they farm and ranch, they pay the fee and move on. I am not a spoiled brat as people say would be the consequence of having a single child, it is your upbringing that determines that, not just how many siblings you have. I have a toddler of my own now and he does have cousins and aunties and uncles, because I had cousins, I was very close with my cousins they were like siblings to me.
People of my generation living in China never given the one child policy a second thought, because it truly does not impact their day to day life most of my friends who live in China still only chose to have one child even though it’s been more than a decade since you are allowed to have more than one child. It’s by choice, just like you are seeing more people choosing not to have children or have less children it’s their choice and the trend.
Honestly the quality of life of my generation living in urban China isn’t that different from my quality of life in urban second teir city in Canada. We all have nice cars nice houses and gets to travel.
Of course the issues raised in the documentaries are valid as well, but it’s not just because of the one child policy, it’s the more deep rooted patriarchal beliefs that’s the problem, thats what caused the imbalance of the genders, but this is cultural you can hardly pin that on the government. My grandparents for example, simply feels closer to their grandson as supposed to me their grand daughter, they love me dearly and I love them, but that is their bias.
As for the issue about having to care for your parents when they are old by yourself? Don’t make me laugh, Chinese seniors are not leeches, they don’t just all of a sudden move in when they are old and frail and expect you to feed and clothes them. The family dynamic and structures are completely different than the west. For starters adults often lives with their parents, even when they are married the couple would live together with grandparents because the work to clean and cook and often raising grandchildren are shared by the grandparents and the couple. When I was pregnant, my mom took two years off work and moved in and helped with my baby. That’s just what you do for family. Similarly, when my parents are older and can no longer care for themselves they will naturally live with me, because they are my parents and I love them. Same goes for my husbands parents.
As a Filipino I agree. We also have the same culture of family generations living together. Right now I live in a compound where my mom, twin brother, his wife and son, myself and my wife and two kids live.
My sister and her husband and son also stay here during the weekends.
Soon my eldest son who is married and just had our first grandson will transfer into the compound.
We Asians take care of our elders and the elders help with the grandchildren when the parents are working.
It gives meaning to us and is not a burden.
CCP 1970 to women in their 20s: "You no have babies, you work NOW"
CCP 2020 to women in their 20s: "You have babies, NOW"
It make sense why Chinese women don’t want to get married
Bruuuhhh how come you need a visa to move in your own country??
Welcome too communism dude.
All of these consequences have been discussed before, and since this video was posted the CCP has implemented a 3(!) child policy. Too little, too late. But there was one point that I had not considered, the effect of the policy on the military. If China does initiate a conflict, say by trying to invade Taiwan, and they end up losing a significant number of young, only child soldiers, that could possibly be the straw that breaks the CCP's back. The people have sacrificed everything for their sole child (especially the boys), and to lose them in a stupid war would be a huge blow.
I didnt see how serious this was
Neither did the CCP.
well lets take their 4-2-1 example. You have a full-time job and are expected to also take care of your parents as well as both sets of grandparents. you must have a pretty good job to support 6 Other people who may be too old to do any sort of work.
so ALL your time is being spent on work or taking care of 6 people. you now have no time to do anything you'd enjoy. you need help, a wife would be good because even if it meant a 7th person to support at Least she could help take some of the work off you. But not only is that unappealing to her There's she's got her own family above her to care for and not many women to go around in the first place. why'd she go with you when there's Richer men with fewer elders to look after.
You're screwed. you're literally working yourself to death. which might be the prefered way to go out because at the rate things are going when you're too old to work there won't be anyone to support you. you've no aunts uncles cousins or siblings And the family you do have ALL depend on you
I am 71 now and have said for some time that I do not wish to live past the time I can't wipe my own ass. That being said.
I believe that the reason China is doing so well today is because of the amount of resources and education that were concentrated in the one child resulting in a young generation that is very savvy and productive. Instead of having a large family that can help you herd goats, you raise an exceptional child that will use technology to herd your goats.
That generation is already lying flat and refusing to keep working hard
@@peromiestiloesunico And yet, they are part of the most productive economies that has ever been. Maybe, working smart is better than working hard. Are they using the education they received to do good and positive things?
@@ScampMichael Not really they are colonizing Africa and the middle east as we speak so "good things" not so much beside if they only teach you central planned economy it would be better to not have received that education.
@@peromiestiloesunico espousing the rhetoric of those countries that cannot keep up is backing losers. If you can give examples how people are being hurt by BRI and China's policies it would be of interest.
@@ScampMichael th-cam.com/video/uWl7njLlXLU/w-d-xo.html Lying flat. th-cam.com/video/MTWO8jlU4WA/w-d-xo.html China colonizing through debt.
And you have this video to show the damage that has caused the one child policy.
I can only imagine the immense pressure that younger generations in China face. Life just seems like it gets harder and harder for so much of the world.
I can’t imagine a society brought up with no brother or sisters at all. God save us!
This is what men want a only male nation
Here, common in my society, people hope for having daughter. Coz, married son usually most caring his wife and wife's families. But daughter, even they get married still care their parents. So, people who didn't have daughter still worried about who Will caring them when get old
Remind of my neighbor who fell ill abs only his daughters took care of him not his strong and logical sons lol.
He gave nothing to his sons once he found out they never came to visit him is well is only fir his daughters and his grandchildren.
Imagine if they didn't you would have 3 to 4 billion Chinese not only in China but all over the world. China would have literally owned the world for 1 out of 2 person in the world would be a Chinese.
That's not how it works, don't be silly. China couldn't feed his population then, what would have happened if it tripled or quadrupled? That is what Mao and the others were worried about: too many people, not enough food. It would have just been more famines.
@@Origami84 the famines were caused bcz of Mao's idiotic policies like killing sparrows, changing crops, employing ppl with little to zero experience in farming.
This was insane!
Chinese government could start with a three-child policy first then gradually move on to an one-child policy. But they're desperate and impatient. Now they are facing a population crisis.
Truly 'Haste makes Waste.' I hope they are learning from their mistakes.
the problem is raising a child is so expensive,education and house are too much expensive. more than that, pension and welfare are also sucks.
Get a good job then
How about some perspective here!
Ageing parents aren't the only dependents relying on working people to support them. Babies are extremely dependent. In fact, a child is two dependents: the child itself and an adult to supervise and protect it. In the 1960s, it was common in Australia for a family to consist of a worker/taxpayer man and 3 or more children and their mother, who stayed home to care for them. That is a dependency ratio of 1 person supporting five people. In the family that I was born into was 1 worker supporting 6 people. Now Australian families often have only two children or only one, and two adults supporting them.
This also happened in Singapore with 2 child policies ordered by communist thinking PM Lee Kwan Yew. Look what happen to Singapore now, schools are closing or merge every 8~10 years. Recruit to security forces are less. Work force to firms are strained... Dictating forces will collapse in 20 years time. They can't stay forever ...
No aunts, uncles or cousins? How nuts!!
I know of plenty of Chinese people with Aunts, Uncles and Cousins... They're Grandparents just paid the fee to keep their other children...
Sad days for women. Thanks for sharing.
Both my parents were only children. (in America) I had the most lonely childhood because they were doing their own thing and ignored myself and my sister.
that's really some of the worst experiences. lonely childhood is the worst thing, seriously
Why did your parents ignore you? Them been an only child themself would mean they should know what it’s like to be alone
this helped for my project thx u
Well with the way they handle domestic abuse it's probably a blessing in some ways less kids have to experience and witness that.
CCP: Have 2 children only -- no, 1 child only.
CCP: 1 child policy creates problem? Men can't find wives? OK, two children per family.
CCP: What? The young people are lying down flat? We don't have enough workers? Order them to have three children!!!
Witnessing so many homeless people in major cities of the world ... Hope people are financially secured with a fully paid house or apartment Before thinking of having a kid ... muchless kids ... Homelessness is a sad reality for many in today's expensive & chaotic world ... 🙏🕯🌎🕊
A big problem whit the one child policy it's on war. How you will send people to fight if they are all single child. Like you can but the moment a big number is killed people in the state will be on rablion
It was a policy that made sense at the time to the government. And it certainly has side effects and sometimes overly enforced. Absolutely.. just like American war on drugs, second amendment or abortion ban. It may make sense to certain people but tragedy happens.
What if they had not limited children? They would be in deeper trouble if their population had tripled or doubled.
yes, exactly. Especially with the half a million of baby girls who were abandoned or left on the streets of China.
Being the only child myself feels like a blessing. I get all the love and attention and all the resources. I don’t see why divided love attention and resources is a good thing.
Lets be real wen u were born into this world u were shouldered with responsibilities be it from families, urself, n the people around u. Its just true. It can be harder for the only child products in China. But life, no matter where, is full of responsibility. U cant live a solitary life, as a human u’d start seeking responsibilities, to feel more meaningful. As a part of something..
What if I have enough responsibilities, what if I don't want to burden my child from my own problems because I just can't take care, what if I think life is meaningful on its own, everyone's definition of meaningful is different isn't it?
Interesting ❤
In China, children born into one-child homes get to inherit two houses as they have two sets of grandparents. They also get to be helped by their parents in buying homes in the cities if they so wish. How is it going in Europe again when it comes to hoime buying, living cost, etc.?
Don't worry everyone!
The one child policy is over ! Now it's the 2 child policy :D
Boy, the government really learned their lesson !
Actually it’s 3 children now
After what? The population won’t increase since many refuse marriage
@@jalifritz8033I love how non climactic this has been over the two years since I commented 😂
Fuuuhh
The future belongs to those who show up.
China has borders with Russia, if we take away political issues, Russia has different problem. Too many women, not enough men. And also a demographic problem.
Chinese are already buying mail order brides from russia
One child policy is probs mostly devastating to the decrease in working age population. But with my own experience and people around me, this policy does good to most families by lowing costs to raise one child, focusing more on the 1 kid's education and needs, and better life quality to parents themselves. As the only child at home, I feel lucky especially born as a girl, because my parents love me no matter what my gender is. And of course I will take care of them when they get order.
For those people got abortion when they found out they were pregnant with girls, I feel they made the right choice because they will not love their girls anyway. Its better for those girls never get a chance to see how ugly the world could be!!
Perhaps teaching a society to value both sexes is more important than we thought
The dearth of females is not new in China. During hard times this was brought about by infanticide.
Not to be rude, but this is so damn HUMILIATING!
Why do all the Chinese posters have people whose faces show noticeable European features?
What features
@@andieallison6792 Mostly the lack of epicanthic folds.
I do think some kind of population control, especially among the more populous nations, is a good thing. Long term perspective, it is a good thing for planet earth and a better future for everyone.
india?right😂
life sucks . not being born is a grace
I agree. No child asks to be born. This world is imposed on the child by the selfish parents.
@@MCC876
i protect my children
by not creating them lol
Chinese people trusted the experts.
I’m an only child, living in America from Hispanic parents and I love it. I understand that this is a problem on a national scale but for people who do it by choice, it’s great. I am tired of being judged for being an only child.
Spot on. I had a sister and it was a nightmare. She's okay now.
I think you may have missed the whole point!
My best friend in elementary school her sister was adopted from China. Her name was Sara :)
So why does no one talk about this?
One child policy saved China from being Africa or India: A lot of people with no means to feed themselves. Now China has an educated society and far less poverty.
For how long???
Another ignorant labelling Africa as a country🤦
From being Africa ?? Dude wtf are you talking about ?
@@Talkwithtina808 Probably for a long time because China's GDP is expected to surpass that of USA in the next 10 years.
@@Ocean-yl4do I'm African too, Africa is a region with almost the same population as China or India, hence I put them in the same category.
The government should establish a social security system rather than expect children to do it alone. Of course, all children should take care of their elders, but its a huge burden with 2 sets of grandparents and 1 child.
China does have a Pension System but it is financially overstressed
I think children should not care for elders. They did not ask to be born and born into a specific set of families who need them as a social insurance
@@lug.5329Then who gonna pay the pensions?
@@koushikdas1992 , uhm, the people using it later.
Over time those 6 hectares farms will become 10, then 15, then, 40. China’s agriculture is already based on diesel. At first there’ll be better equipment utilization. Then the size of the engines will go up. Each farmer will produce a larger surplus. The need for transfers of income from family members will be replaced by farm income.
A lot of nice photo cutouts parallax effects in this vid
Thought the Chinese were smart.
They're now the richest country in the world and I suspect with the army they're accumulating they don't plan on staying within their borders. They're teaching those children English from early primary school.
I don't know how I never thought about it like that
Look out, the Chinese are being taught English from a very young age. They don't plan on staying there.
Could polyamorous marriages in China become a thing? Is it a possibility in that culture? 🤷🏻♀️
What could it do?
The child bearer is still very limited.
And women could share men (polygamy)
While men, never ever i see to share a women (poly amory).
And its not just one society.
But with todays world, maybe, but again it does nothing.
Not really, as it would not solve the problem of child bearing as women are not necessarily willing to have many children with different men and if they are still expected to take care of the in-laws how would they take care of so many parents (including possibly their own). Not to mention people might not actually want to be in a polyamorous relationship and hat is not only men but women too.
Don´t know about the cultural part, but it would partially resolve the financial problem of having children. Leading to most chinese only wanting 1, seldom even 2, because they can´t afford one. But I really doubt that that will become a thing.
It´s more likely, that they would look outside of china for a bride. There are chinese populations outside of china.
China is like SimCity
Pathetic that they listed abortion and murder as two separate things.
Funny, if we were to take all of those points and apply them to US, then China is doing great. But i dont see AEI making alarmist videos about catastrophic situation in US.
Not to mention that most of those stats are being blown out of proportion, like the fact that even with legacy of one-child policy, Chinese demographics are in better state than they are in most western countries. With their fertility rates actually growing.
Look america isn't very great, but can you at least acknowledge how fucked up this system was. You dont have to immediately find fault in america because someone criticized your beloved China
@@nihartley5265 I dont love China, but system they have is not a catastrophe as this dideo tries to portrait it to be.
What CPP is doing is slingshotting their demographics into stable orbit. They had problem with overpopulation for a long time, then they put a lid on it and now they are leveling out and promoting normal demographic growth. So in 15-20 years correlation between population, technology and infrastructure will level out.
Their population is shrinking still, but fertility rates are on an upward trend. And they are in no immediate treat of running out of people any time soon.
At the same time, in US for example, fertility rates are not just below replenishment rates, they are decreasing. And is not just bad now, it is a catastrophe in the making. Because even current bad levels are being help up by children from demographics that do not contribute to society as whole. Its not whites, who are only group that contribute more than they take out, who are propagating, its blacks and hispanics that are having big families.
US is already in enormous debt and this situation is getting rapidly worse. What do you think will happen a generation down the line ? When there is even less whites, especially considering that single motherhood is being hailed as "heroic", despite the fact that children of single mothers are at extremely high risk of all the bad things(studies show that only thing worse than being child of a single mother, is being an orphan), from poverty rates, to crime to becoming single parents themselves.
While US has it the worst, rest of western world is not doing that much better.
All thins considering, in comparison, China is doing great. They are having a depression, while most of the western world has lost it legs and is now rapidly bleeding out.
I dont like China, but denying of factual reality is one of the main reasons why West is going to Hell.
@@sjent what slingshot are you talking about? Most people in China do not intend to have more than one child still. You can see the polls on the reaction to the three child policy yourself. This is not alarmist if you searched you'll see the same type of thing said of Europe and Latin America, except China's problem is worse because they're also just missing a lot of girls. The us demographic issue is not as big a problem because as a country immigration is standard and largely normalized, where as China does not have much immigration so if they don't make children they're going to have a huge problem. Those are the facts. But yes of course every developed nation is seeing declining birth rates and its a problem because it'd happening too fast
@@oakinwol _Most people in China do not intend to have more than one child still._
I was not aware that you are an expert on China. Little stupid poor me was just operating on available statistics, rather than generic meaningless sentences. Chinese fertility rates have been really slowly growing since mid 90s, while US fertility rates have been averaging below replenishment rates for last 50 years.
Is China out the hole ? Nope. But they are slowly getting there. US does not. And China has a lot more people and can afford those rates - US will run out of people far sooner than China does.
_except China's problem is worse because they're also just missing a lot of girls_
Have you considered to look up an actual numbers ? Instead of just spewing nonsensical propaganda ? China male to female ratio is 1.06. US ratio is 0.97. Does US missing a lot of boys ?
_The us demographic issue is not as big a problem because as a country immigration is standard and largely normalized, where as China does not have much immigration so if they don't make children they're going to have a huge problem._
You seem to presume that immigration is a positive thing and somehow can solve all the problems. A completely idiotic notion. Aside of the fact that US immigration system is anything but standardized, it creates a lot more problems that it solves.
Simple fact that even European countries that are "racially diverse" do not have race riots, shows how absurd this idiotic claim is.
Simply letting in ton of people to offset dying out population will have nothing but detrimental effect on a country. Because people that are coming in, are escaping their own countries and cultures and they bring their culture with them. You know, one where they are poor. You get crime, you get welfare recipients, you get racial tensions, etc. What you do not get is prosperity.
If you take people from poor country and replace wealthy country people with them, all you get is another poor country.
Having children is not a problem at this point, rising them to be productive members of society is. If you have an immigrant woman, that has 5 kids with 5 different dads(none of whom is in the picture) and lives on welfare, all you get is parasite breeding more parasites. Because children of such mothers are ay high risk of all the negative things you can imagine, from substance abuse to alcoholism to crime.
And those are the facts. There are an actual studies on all those topics.
@@sjent I don't know much about statistics. However, in my opinion China's declining population is not that bad. Since a lot of elderly are dying of old age right now, China's elderly population will decrease. From my point of view, less elderly = less financial burden on young people. So in the next few decade or so, China's population and economy might be in healthy area. Even if population exceeds how much they have right now, the ratio will be much healthier. Also since China's economy has improved a lot since 60s, they might be in better spot if families decided to have more than one child like how they used to. The only problem I can see right now is the society and how they will adapt to the changes. But who knows, I'm not a seer nor someone who has anything to do with studying society. These are my thoughts
What about hunger, were the data correct about food shortages? Well, with this policy it could be that in a few years there will be old people in agriculture at a very slow pace, so they "created" hunger.
Brazil is open to immigrants and we won't have problems with fertility anytime soon, but we also have this risk for the future, because people themselves are adopting a one-child policy.
What's next mandatory death at age 70?
China overcounted population by 100 million. They have 1.3 billion not 1.4 billion.
This is one of the most tragic policies by a Communist government. Their beliefs are so simplistic. Communist Vietnam copied this stupid policy too.
The bigger problem is the reverence of male children, there wouldn't be such a massive gender imbalance and thus difficulty in the aging population.
Which country implements the most humane measure, for controlling human population, if there are any?
😳😳no aunt's no uncle's no cousins 🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁
Chills
The CCP is stuck trying to reverse it now and most Chinese couples don’t want to have children and you can’t force people to have children. Declining birth rates is a common malaise suffered by advancing and advanced economies. It shows limits as to how you can run a planned economy. The other way perhaps a better one is the provision and withdrawal of subsidies but no forced abortions. An object lesson to keep in mind for the future leaders in the CCP.🤔
Yep, not to mention it has fundamentally changed how Chinese see having children
they probably treat each other like siblings at school🤔
So, China's population, which has traditionally had problems with overpopulation and the consequent famines which result, took control of their population and it has, finally, started to shrink. Let's address the big elephant in the room: you don't have a one-child policy for 37 years without knowing that the population will shrink. It's obvious that it will. The intention was always for the population to shrink. Next issue: how do you ensure that your economy will be able to handle this? Well, most experts agree that you need a highly-education workforce (check!), and you need to engage in automation (check!), and it really helps if you move your economy up the value-chain (check!). At a time when the youth are not liking the jobs available, and with the previous generation retiring in droves, it all seems to be coming together. Figures that the American Enterprise Institute would refer to this as a "dystopia". What a joke!
the bible is telling us, children are blessings from above.
Social engineering
They ran out of rations.
Western life ,kids do not care their parents even 2-3 kids . majority died in old age care . what is point of discuss .. same situation in west .
8:31 basically means no women, men are a danger
Good
35 yrs of this? Wow
Honestly this is better then starvation as a born and raise american I think china leader did what he thought was best and I probably do the same it's this or starvation it's sad either way
@@rebeccagriffin8458 true but it was made in 1980 amd was discussed over 2 years if they should enforce it I'm sure they couldn't just google or have statistics showing this as they were the biggest population at the time I mean 1980 was lime what 41 years ago
No aunt's uncles cousins this us sad
This is old news 😅
what happened to Monday
PRC has vindicated the warnings of Humanae Vitae.
I get that is a loss of family however when you are overpopulated reducing the population is more important or eventually there won’t be the resources to support the people and they’ll be eating soylent green (yes that’s a reference to an old movie where the secret ingredient to the food supplement is people. For a more modern reference there’s the novel Oryx and Crake where a popular low cost meat was believed to have people in it, specifically anyone who spoke out against the government would find themselves in the next batch of burgers)
I totally disagree with this video...maybe she wants 3 billion people living in China 🇨🇳
China should have as many kids as it has! Protesting everybody say, protesting in this chat, go ahead and do it
I really wanted to watch this, and got through the first high tone at the beginning of the music, hearing about how they were hoping the child would get a high paying job....how is that possible in a communist country...I thought everyone was supposed to be equal...lol...the high tone stopped and I thought, terrific now I can get into this program...but the sustained high tones in the background music gave me an instant head ache...oh well.
So about 50% of Chinese men will not have a wife. Think about it, no wife cheating on you, no alimony, no child support, no nagging woman telling you to work harder and make more money. So where is the downside?
Let’s be clear just because there is a man in charge. Communism is not a patriarchal society. It’s actually more matriarch in structure that the mother distributes everything that everyone needs according to their needs, which is how most family dynamics work.
While I agree with the message I don't think it was necessary to bring up how patriarchy .
This is why you cant play god on your people
Would you rather China have 3 Billion people? If it was't for birth control and abortion a world with 12-15 Billion people would be crumbling before our eyes. already a mass extinction event is happening where most mamals will dissapear from earth except livestock. Global warming. important metals will run out in the 2030s. fresh water is running out in most of the world. pesticides are in 95% of the fresh water supply. 91% of Americans test for Glyphosate in their blood. etc etc etc. One child policy saved the world.
Exactly
Amazing comment.
Don't listen to the stupid comments.
@@andrewj4426 More kids are birthed due to infant mortality being high (usually in poor countries). When country progresses its natural tendency of having more kids is tamed as deaths during child birth and adolescent becomes rare. Im from India where a generation ago people did have 5+ kids and a lot of those died, 2-3 usually used to survive. But now after 1990 people have a tendency to stop at 1-2 kids.
Shame this video didn't talk about HOW they implemented the policy which is a much worse tragedy.
Yep, millions and millions of murdered babies. There are a lot of things they didn't bring up in this video.
Nor did they mention the fact that this was a policy from the United Nations and the World Bank. Overpopulation is a DANGEROUS LIE!! The only people concerned about so-called “overpopulation” are the global elites. More people means more workers and there are vast tracts of land completely unused. No such thing as overpopulation on this earth. We can all spread out as God told us too and still have plenty of land available untouched.
Yes. Millions of murders, and hundreds of millions of crimes against women. Someone very close to me is an illegal second child. His mother had one child, got pregnant, was forced to have an abortion, but the hospital lost electricity while she was literally lying on the table about to have it. then she managed to hide her pregnancy and have the baby in secret, then have relatives go hide him in the country side for a couple months. The system is so evil, the one person tried to report her saying she had a baby, because they thought they could get some gain from reporting her. Thankfully the family was able to scrounge together enough to bride the doctor to report she hadn't just had a child.
When these videos say people having a second child would have had to pay "a heavy fine" does not even come close to the reality. The fine would have been something like what a family cloud earn in a lifetime, and they would?also have been fired, banned from working for life, and not be eligible for social security in old age. This would make them paupers for life.
That second baby is now a great man and a great father.
They did mention the murder
"Your parents and relatives have put their hopes and dreams of the family future on you, to succeed in school and get a high paying job." Please Chinese parents have been doing that since the dawn of time
but there used to be a couple of siblings, now a third of all kids are single kids. so if one fails and 2 succeeds, its not insta-starvation and poverty. Also, most people have up and downs in their life. Being jobless for a while isn't uncommon. Being more than a single kid to care for older generations would help then
u clearly did not understand the meaning for the only-children context, despite them having drawn it for you at 5:17
Yes, but before that, multiple sons could help bear the burden of being breadwinners and supporting their parents and grandparents on a society that mostly relies on this for social security. Being an unmarried person facing the burden of marrying, raising children, AND being responsible for the cost to care for six aging people is immense for _any_ one person, worldwide! Add to that a social preference for boys in a one-child society, that freely aborted or abandoned their daughters, and you have that single person also facing the prospect of it being almost impossible to find a suitable marriage partner, and that partner comes with their own load of parents and grandparents to care for. Not ideal for raising a child in that mix as well. China just released a three-child policy and it is getting laughed at and nobody wants it, because nobody can afford it when they are the single source of care for so many elderly!
When you try to play God, God says oh yeah?
None of these consequences was unexpected. They were all foreseen by demographers.
tfw i'm a chinese male and an only child
Are you spoiled?
Bruh!
@@weltschmertzz A lot of Asian kids aren't seen as spoilt. More stereotyped at clever hard working kids