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: kzhead.info/sun/rdSPkq2mfmp_o2g/bejne.html Best, Anthony, Video Producer at AEI
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.
@@ilikeudonnoodles1626 Some men might have the money to do that, but definitely not most of them.
@@rebeccawhite8459 Come on Rebecca. Do the math.
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.
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
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’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
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.
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".
"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!
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.
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.
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
None of these consequences was unexpected. They were all foreseen by demographers.
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.
The one child policy was a terrible idea, but ultimately many people still had more. The penalties for having more children weren't life changing. The bigger problem was the societal pressure and normalization of it and normalizing late marriage. This is a problem throughout advanced nations but China put the power of the government towards reducing fertility rates. Which makes me wonder how this wasn't recognized as a problem already 40 years ago. Fairly simple models will quickly show how dropping below replacement levels is extremely dangerous for the long term survival of a society. Yet seemingly the CCP never bother asking those questions. I feel sorry for the people in China. It's all falling apart around them and it's only going to get worse in the years to come. I don't think I've seen any single stat that is in China's favor. Their economy is built upon a state organized bubble that is in the process of bursting as I write this. They've mismanaged their lands so badly that they produce less food now than they did a couple decades ago. Their population demographics are headed towards disaster. And they have an authoritarian government that is getting more and more frantic in it's efforts to maintain control.
China is still doing fine and will do fine.
The CCP did see the problem decades ago, but the only thing they care about is keeping power right in front of their noses. Considering how much lying the CCP does to avoid responsibility, the roll back in 2015 of the OCP means that the numbers...the real numbers was so much worse that even they could not ignore it, but it's too late.
which earth do you live in?
When you try to play God, God says oh yeah?
You reap what you sow.
Amen!!!! To this
Well that’s an interesting way to phrase it!
If only most of the people here had no choice meaning it’s more you reap what your dictatorship sows
This is hell on earth. What they’re doing to their people is horrendous
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
Bruuuhhh how come you need a visa to move in your own country??
Welcome too communism dude.
this helped for my project thx u
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
2:51 it says 1990 in the audio and 2000 in the captions- and 2:59 it says 130 million people in the audio and 106 million people in the captions-
China has its teeth wrapped around many necks throughout many lands. I'm not suprised of it. The influence Winnie Pooh has is terrifying to say the least. Hell the way they treat a humans life as just a tool makes my blood boil. Ruining entire generations ahead for at least 200 hundred years before it "stabilises".
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
In 2050, male homosexuality is going to be SO popular in China. The government will mandate that it be practiced.
As a matter of fact ,it's already very popular among us in china😂especially for those living in big city.Though you will face pressure from your family , your peer friends wont be too judgemental.And you seem to suppose it's the unbalanced sex ratio that leads to the popularity,but I have to tell you the truth is in urban area the ratio is just close to 1:1,and in university there are even more girls than boys
Uhm I don't think so, homosexuals do not produce children and that's a problem the CCP doesn't want
@@David-ej1ps You can always adopt foreign children if you can handle having a non Chinese child. Or simply steal them.
For companionship? Because thats not going to help the population issue.
@@juliab9596 The Chinese are very racist, I doubt theyd consider that.
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
No cousins, no aunts no uncles ..., there really is no "family' then.
For the wealthy and middle class there is. They can pay the fee for having an extra child.
Grandparents and Parents are family
I would say no extended family. You still have your parents and grandparents. No family would imply that you literally have no one.
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.
Chinese has been making supreme sacrifices for better China. There is not enough resources to support large population. One child is not the only cause of the problem and there are others like long work hours, financial burden of raising children. Japan, Korea, Russia don't have one child policy their population are also going down. One child policy can't be blamed for everything.
Very good. They introduced by dictate what the rest of the world is now doing naturally because of improved economic conditions.
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.
A one child policy is pretty good in terms of property inheritance though, but people aren't ready for this conversation.
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 kzhead.info/sun/qLulZ9Kig56Of40/bejne.html Lying flat. kzhead.info/sun/gLiQf5yio4dqink/bejne.html China colonizing through debt. And you have this video to show the damage that has caused the one child policy.
This says very little about the human cost, on the level of individuals and families. Imagine having your baby aborted against your will because it would be your second, or being pressured by your family into abandoning your baby girl - those things were everyday occurrences in China for decades...
Muy buen vidio!!!!!!!!!!!
Rather than having lesser children, I think people should be smarter on when to have children. Now that China has implemented the three child policy, it's no use now that the economy is getting worse, as well as COVID-19
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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.
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
except that the one-child policy has ended, and women still have fewer than 2 children on average (about 130-160 babies/100 women). europe, korea and japan have similar problems, even though these populations did not institute strict policies. the lack of immigration is what distinguishes china from europe (and australia, canada and US), although this can quickly change from changes in policy. whatever the case, the structure of the chinese population will change in the next few decades. the chinese population is projected to stop growing and to start shrinking in the next few years, and some statistics indicate this change already happened in 2020. older populations might also be less militarily aggressive.
My grandfather was the 13th child. My parents had 4 children, we siblings all had 2 children, only one of these grandchildren has children (3). People from smaller families tend to have even smaller families if they have children at all.
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.
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.
Why does the map at 9:37 include Taiwan? This policy and situation is not applicable to Taiwan as they were not under the one child policy. :/
There may be huge emotional costs to the one child policy but imagine if China had not done it. The population in China might today be 3 times what it is now. What else could they have done?
Um not enforce a one child policy? If parents have more than 1 child they should be allowed to do so if they can afford it or if they need the extra labor to maintain their farm/business. Urban families tend to have less children anyways due to time and money constraints. It would eventually even out or they'll all go hungry and nature will take care of population control.
@@TobyKim-tp1dw However, imagine doubling the size of China's population, as might have happened if the population was left unchecked. Incidentally, some families in China today have three children.
@@TobyKim-tp1dw "or they'll all go hungry and nature will take care of population control"? What on earth? This is exactly why the one child policy was enforced in the first place, to avoid this inhumane scenario. Sad this even needs to be said, but like trace said the emotional and physical costs of the policy are massively outweighed by the suffering that would have happened otherwise.
The biggest concern back then was resource: food, land, water and energy, and it is still the case today. Even with the current level of global population, we will run out of the fossil fuel in 50 years ( I suspect it will be sooner than that given the population growth and the ongoing industrialization of developing countries ) ...which is a short time considering the whole of human history of hundreds of thousands of years. Once we figure out fusion or a way to replace fossil fuel with unlimited solar energy, at that time, Chinese government will probably relax its birth control even more. If not, we might have a hunger game scenario where many countries will experience drastic decline of living standard, and shortage of living essentials, and large population will be a huge burden when the resources are running dry.
They "forgot" to mention the 50,000,000 that died under Mao's dictatorship during the great march forward.
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.
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A lot of nice photo cutouts parallax effects in this vid
Similar story in the West, although of course not quite as dramatic, except it's for different reasons i.e. the cost of living. How many people do YOU know personally who have three or more children? Keep in mind that statistically a minimum of 2.1 children per woman is required to ensure a population increases sufficiently to ensure an economically robust market economy into the future.
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Imagine China without the 1 child policy. There would be 3-4 billion people and growing in China alone.
If control of population is bad try with overpopulation.
too many people can be fixed quite easily. (not ethically But easy) how are you supposed to make More people when your gender ratio is lopsided and you've neither the time or money to raise 1 kid let alone 3
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 ... 🙏🕯🌎🕊
We never have to sacrifice for getting some thing, gain without sacrifice is the key to happiness
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!!!
Not to be rude, but this is so damn HUMILIATING!
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.?
Fair and good thing
On top of all the economic issues, children growing up without siblings are usually spoiled with all adult attention focused solely on them
I Hope you know the one child policy dosent exist anymore
@@anessayuki8147 I do. 3 children are now encouraged. But the video was about the one child policy in place for decades. Also, it’s so expensive in China ppl are opting out of even having one child. They are borked very soon as the aged population will outnumber the workforce and they cannot rely on immigration as democratic countries do .. no one wants to move to a commie country.
Society will have to adapt to lot of changes. In the end everyone will be required to be Kind and Compassionate.
Lawl the propaghanda is real. There are over hundreds of countries in the world with huge issues, and China is the only country US spends so much time and money to investigate.
I am the only child of my family and my parents followed one child policy. Thank this one child policy, my parents gave me all the love and their money to support me go abroad. I could study and immigrate because of that. If I have brothers or sisters, then I might not have chance to experience in developed countries. A lot of my classmates from other countries have many siblings, they have to work hard and earn money to support themselves but I don't need. If I need money, my parents will give to me. I avoid jealousy from siblings because I don't have siblings and I received a lot of jealousy from others who have siblings and want money from their parents. I won't say one child policy is a tragedy in my case. As a former Chinese girl (I have changed my nationality), I got full love and attentions from my parents. In addition, they told me their heritage will be mine as well, which is 2 houses in China, each values around 1 million dollar.
Hannah T The one child policy is not a tragedy for you but for your parents. Let's say a Chinese couple had only one child and then lost their child in his working age through accidents or sickness. It would be devastating for the parents.
@@thinkcat01 First, I did not die, my parents don't feel it's a tragedy as well, you need to have enough money to educate and raise kids. Many poor Chinese became parents and had more than one kid, but they did not provide good environment for their kids, what happened to their kids? That will be more tragedy for both kids and parents. Second, the old Chinese one child policy is a past now, China is allowing three children policy, if you can raise three children and provide them bright future, go ahead to have them, otherwise, don't harm kids. Many poor Chinese parents only want sons not daughters, they chose abortion when they knew the baby's gender is female, what a cruel tragedy. Third, accidents and sickness can happen to anyone, from your theory, it seems making sense that one child died, parents are devastating. However, they can adapt a new kid if they want. They can have second kid if they want. Chinese one child policy doesn't mean you are only allowed to have one kid in your entire life. The old one child policy, if you pay fines, you still can be allowed to have more than one child. Some Chinese did not tell the truth because they could use one child policy to claim that they are refugees in USA in order to get green cards easily. Even now one child policy was revoked, some Chinese lied about their background and made some stories to get permanent residency in developed countries. Last, we only have one parents, I don't have more than one mom and dad. Of course I am also afraid of their sudden accident and sickness leading to death. Death of parents and kids are both equal tragedy to everyone.
@@thinkcat01 I thank Chinese one child policy because it helps me to have a bright future and I feel being loved. Let's give you another assumption, if my Chinese parents were poor and love sons, there would be only two endings to me, either I died because the mom chose to do abortion or I would not be loved because parents only love sons. Which one is more like a tragedy to you? I did not even mention that other Chinese at my same age have siblings, they were born during one child policy time too, why could they have siblings? Because their parents wanted more kids and they made it. When I was talking about my life in western developed countries on Chinese websites, they were jealous of me. In western countries, some families have only one child too, why don't you criticize their decision? Chinese one child policy provided Chinese girls equalitarianism and privileges like other Chinese boys.
@@chancardT One child policy cannot replaced two parents. The work force in China will decline due to aging population. Not only that one child caused parents to over indulge and pamper their only child which caused spoilt brats. Also the state had to pay pension to aging parents and health care system too. So, there are not enough working young adults to pay income tax for supporting pensions and health care system. In another 30 years, China population will shrink. It is now starting to shrink. I am not talking about you, just one person, but the whole of China as a nation. It is precisely because of the one child policy, that parents are more willing to practice infanticides. I even heard of couples who throw their baby girls into river in order to have another child. Not all parents have the money to pay the fines. Some are too poor to pay fine. One woman cannot stopped crying for his son in her old age. How do you expect the old woman to adopt a son? The son was fifty when he died and she is around 80 years. Can an eighty years old woman adopt a son and able to take care of him/her? Even orphan homes will not let an old woman to take adopt a child. There are criteria to adopting a child. Her son never married because due to gender imbalance. And also due to one child policy, many men turned to agents to bring them brides from overseas. This caused many girls in Vietnam, Myanmar and other places to become victims of traffickers.
Hannah T I know many families have two children and they are well taken care of. It is not like having 6 or 7 children. The two children also can help their parents when they grow up and start working. They can support their parents in their old age. I am my siblings are best of friends. You are being selfish and only want to be your parents sole love. Some western couples had one child also but that is not the state policy. It is their individual decision. It is not as a nation as a whole. Many Chinese couples who had a second pregnancy was forced to abort the baby even up to 7months. Some even first child was forced to abort due to not registering for getting pregnant without permission.
Movie: Shoes of the Fisherman Key plot point: New Pope, we will sell everything we have to feed the hungry. That's the movie. In the same world the reality looked like real, continuing mass starvation throughout Asia. What actually happened was a new rice, vastly more productive. Plant breeder got a Noble Prize. Estimate, 1 billion lives saved.
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 ...
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
The people tried to fight this and guess what happened? Tiananmen Square and they lost.
And now they’ve brainwashed their youth into believing that that massacre never happened.
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
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My best friend in elementary school her sister was adopted from China. Her name was Sara :)
Well with the way they handle domestic abuse it's probably a blessing in some ways less kids have to experience and witness that.
The worst part of being an only-child in the family, is not having any siblings to play with.
Mandarin has separate words for older brother and younger brother, and also for older sister and younger sister. And China now has an entire generation which has no need for any of these words.
Why do all the Chinese posters have people whose faces show noticeable European features?
My mom was forced to have spare boy but failed and had me and my sister instead. We weren't abused, just ignored.
it's so messed up that they have their cousins THEIR COUSINS and call them brothers and sisters cuz they LITERRALLY do not have siblings :(
35 yrs of this? Wow
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...
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.
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!
The biggest concern back then was resource: food, land, water and energy, and it is still the case today. Even with the current level of global population, we will run out of the fossil fuel in 50 years ( I suspect it will be sooner than that given the population growth and the ongoing industrialization of developing countries ) ...which is a short time considering the whole of human history of hundreds of thousands of years. Once we figure out fusion or a way to replace fossil fuel with unlimited solar energy, at that time, Chinese government will probably relax its birth control even more. If not, we might have a hunger game scenario where many countries will experience drastic decline of living standard, and shortage of living essentials, and large population will be a huge burden when the resources are running dry.
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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
The future belongs to those who show up.
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.
One child policy is covert slavery. The government is the owner and regent of the people's will. Unthinkable!
So glad I am not in China facing all those generations from parents to grandparents in bothside of family to takecare beside having my new life with my husband. Some in law are pain in a neck to live with. YUK!!!
How much of this did you actually film or steal?
In Iraq people will have too much kids, most of them will live in the streets, it's better to make such policies to stop suffering
you don't fix one extreme by going to the Other side of it. at the rate China is going it won't be able to function, they don't even have the means to replace the current population so there's going to be a very steep and sudden drop in everything in a few decades
@@coochize China have over 1.3 billions people living there. You speak and worry like they are only a few Chinese left. If 300 millions are missing, still will be 1 billions Chinese to reproduce. ALSO MORE PEOPLE ARE BORN, MORE QUICKER WE WILL GET EXTINTED. So less is far better!
@@susi4989 communist china is the story of 1 bad fuckup after another. do you really think they're going to deal with the sudden population shrink Better with their leader's level of incompetence and paranoia? China has a LOT of problems on the horizon and a reduced and spoiled generation who's going to be asked to solve all the problems they inherit and i expect it to go as well as the great leap forward
@@coochize I don't believed anything. I don't know the future. But less people over the world is better. Overpopulation are destroying the world!
@@coochize so you prefer children suffering in the streets where temps in the summer reaches 50 c ? Is that the extreme you love for your precious economy ?
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.
What one-child policy? It doesn't exist anymore... China adopted a two-child policy around the turn of the new century/millennia... And get this, a month ago, they added a third child to that equation because the people still favored boys over girls. So again I ask, what one-child policy?
It’s very sad 😢
It would be worse if they'd continued to have four and five children while still living on rice.
So, what, American Enterprise Institute, should China have done instead ? Just sit back and allow over 6 births per women to continue unabated ? Have you actually been to China and witnessed the number of number of underemployed people engaged in soul-destroying, make busy, jobs ? And that is in the present day. Now contemplate how utterly miserable things could have been for millions upon millions without 1-child policy.
So the only option is controlling people's lives and not family planning?
@@subaruyagami2327 I don't know. I don't have the answer. That is why I asked the question. It is easy to criticize with righteous indignation from the safety. But I think that doing nothing was not an option for China. I guess that comparison of the outcomes in China and Indian will provide some insight. Not what is right and wrong but of outcomes. A grand social experiment but with profound effects on human lives either way.
You do realize America and other major countries saved those little Chinese girls. The solution to their problems were shipped right over to these countries especially the US or the grave..
I agree. China couldn't just sit back and let the population continue to get out of control. I'm not saying it was entirely the right thing to do. But people can't just keep having 6 kids, especially if they aren't able to care for them properly. That's insane. And if everyone in the entire country has 6 kids, that's a problem. There aren't enough resources to care for all those kids.
@@beacreates4370 Entirely? It's like they never even heard of educating people about family planning. They treat people as cattle.
Me, an only child with only one aunt, no uncles and no cousins: Um yeah?
They had a dictator that told them it was all the sparrows fault and they should kill all the birds. Then the dictator told them the only way to survive this famine that he did NOT cause is to only have one child.
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.
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?
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.
Well, it is what it is, no one can ever find out what happens if there were never 1 child policy was never implemented.
"unexpected consequences" Really? Any demographer worth his/her salt saw this coming. But, no. Paul Ehrlich wrote a book, the media hyped him and then ... boom, China buys into it. This was totally predictable, but the Chinese Government was too myopic to see the future consequences.