China Population

In Alexa Olesen’s article, “Official: Chinese government partly to blame for problem of too many boys,” it is very important to control population before it gets out of hand. The population of China is getting larger and larger, especially after the baby boom in the early 1980’s. The Chinese family depends on the male more than the female. The government has a policy to stop the increase of the population by having one child for each family, and it worked well. The population now stopped growing fast, but they still have a big base. The government also gives another chance to have more then one child if they family has a girl instead of a boy. We should change the idea that boys are better then girls; solve the problem of having more children, and help to solve the difficulty of payment for high education.

Families should change the thought that only boys can support them when they get old. Also, they have to know that now women can do it and sometimes can get better jobs than man, but they have to give her a chance. That’s why families who are poor want to have more boys to support them. That’s why Chinese families want to have a boy instead of having a girl. The girl is not as strong as the boy; this is old thought, but they should change it, people have stared to use their brain, not only their muscles. Women can work the same as the men. For example, they work in government, companies, factories and even in international jobs. If the government gives more chance to the women and more salary, maybe the families will change forever. So, now I hope families can see that point and change their thought about having a girl.

The government should solve the problem that every family has more than one child by raising their income and having more campaigns. Some families do not follow this idea by having more than one. This is a big problem. People should know that if they do not stop having more than one child the government will not have control over things like pension system, health care and good education. I think the best solution for this problem is to educate the families more by having big advertisements on television, in transportation places, in work place and in schools, especially universities because they will start families soon.

The government should solve this problem of high education by helping the families to pay jus a fee or a small amount of money or work for a few hours. When you educate people you will receive a good economy and improved workers. Families whose children study in universities are rich or not living in poverty. The high education is very expensive in china, and not every family can take care of this cost.

In conclusion, the Chinese government wants to improve the life system for 1.3 billion people in different ways, like they policy to have one child, and without pushing them. If they have a girl they can have more child to have opportunity to have a boy. Also, they need to improve high education in universities.

Reference:
Olesen, A. (2007, January 23). Official: Chinese government partly to blame for problem of too many boys. Associated Press Worldstream. Retrieved July 11, 2007, from LexisNexis.