According to state media, China is easing its restriction on a one-child policy, so residents in rural areas and ethnic minorities are already exempted from the policy. This is inclusive of some other policies recently made. In the countryside, women can have two babies if the first is a boy.
We know Japan faces some national problems such as the falling birthrate and aging society. When China faced a population explosion in 1970s because of Mao Zedong’s policy, it introduced this one-child policy. However, because this policy forces women to abort an unborn baby, I criticize the policy. When I read this article, I associated it with a gender issue. Forcing women both to give birth without any contraception and abortions and not to have some babies is inhumane because unintended pregnancy is sad news for women. Meanwhile Japan now focuses on promoting having many children due to the declining . Japanese city governments give allowances to a family when parents have a new-born infant or their children enter a school. This system will encourage women to have a baby without any compelling force, thus settling the “declining birthrate” problem.
Please let me ask you two questions.
1. What do you think about these Chinese policies?
2. What will you be careful about when you consider how you make your livelihood after having a child?
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