Thursday, March 01, 2007
Yi ge haizi zheng ce 一个孩子政策
One Child Policy.
China's well-known yi ge haizi zheng ce has led to the unintended consequence of significantly more boys than girls - in some cases as unbalanced as 55 boys for every 45 girls. The situation is particularly problematic in rural areas where parents value a baby boy over a baby girl and will go to great lengths to try to make it happen.
Which explains this sign we saw in rural Anhui province.
Literally, it reads something like "having a boy or a girl are both equally good".
China's well-known yi ge haizi zheng ce has led to the unintended consequence of significantly more boys than girls - in some cases as unbalanced as 55 boys for every 45 girls. The situation is particularly problematic in rural areas where parents value a baby boy over a baby girl and will go to great lengths to try to make it happen.
Which explains this sign we saw in rural Anhui province.
Literally, it reads something like "having a boy or a girl are both equally good".
# posted by tim @ 9:41 PM 
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