Summary
China’s population working age has decreased, and it has
affected family planning issues. Ma said, “he expects China’s working-age
population to decrease “steadily and gradually” over a long period or “at least
before 2030.” Chinese government officials are predicting fertility rates and
how many people aged seven today will become fifteen in eight years’ time. Many
pointed out that the one-child policy was the issue of limited amount of
workers. However, the central government does not have any immediate plans.
There has been a plan for two-child policy, but it has not been established.
Mainly in urban areas it has been affected were one-child policy is enforced.
In rural areas they are trying to make it city like for growth. China’s government
is trying to build twenty cities a year in each of the next twenty years.
Greene explained, “It is not clear where Beijing officials are going to the
people to continue to power the farm-to-city process. Not only the major
demographic trends working against them, but there is also a growing concern
that rural areas have already been emptied out.”
Critique
Why is this idea of establishing a two -child policy a social
issue?
These are some of the family social issues I come to question
myself as a sociologist. I view this social issue to be as macro-sociology and
micro-sociology. Macro-sociology would be changing the one-child policy as it
human society and the lives of Chinese people. It also can be micro-sociology
if it becomes urbanized the social of interaction of urban and rural people
might change.
I focused on the bigger picture of China
because the one-child-policy comes from a large-scale of social forces (government)
that affects the families in urban China. For instance, allowing the parents in urban
areas to have two children can be a social issue because they might have a
girl. Girls are not wanted and there have been cases of abortion and
infanticide. They want a boy to keep the patriarchy going. Moreover, they are
in need for a working-age population, I wonder if this tradition of having a
boy continues would this hinder their economic status? If the two-child policy
comes would communist views on being collective change? Would parenting styles
of teaching one child to obey, be self-control, interdependent, and conform to
rules, change with having two children? Families are greatly impacted
economically and politically by their communist leader. Since rural areas are
not impacted as much with the one-child policy, would rural area families be
impacted with urbanization if they build 20 cities eliminating rural areas?
Rural areas are more traditional and conservative then urban areas.
Unfortunately, this change may do some kind of impact on rural
conservative/traditional Chinese people views, even though they all have
collective views about roles played in the family. Furthermore, I wonder will
the communist government give two-child policy the same advantages for parents
to have: employment opportunities, higher wages, better schooling and
preferential treatment in obtaining governmental assistance and loans. I ponder if this will not happen with the two
child policy because those who do have two children have to pay fines have
difficulty in getting governmental assistance, and they get employment
termination.
Other insight
beside my family topic on one-child policy is the global issue that would occur
with their economic status. China is the world’s second largest economy and we
heavily depend on their products, but if there is not enough workers than it
can create a global issue.
Maribel
Rivera
2/1/2013,
2:30PM
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