Showing posts with label Population. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Population. Show all posts

Monday, February 11, 2008

Are you going to eat that?

In China, the government has for a long time imposed a law stating families are encouraged to have one child per household, or a number of children equal to their annual(yearly) income. This law was put in place due to the fact that China's "population of 65 years olds was only 66 million in 1990, and now is expected to grow 90 million by 2000, and 167 million by 2020. The population has put a tension on the limited resources of China. Many people are moving to the cities, leaving less people to farm the land, thus having less food in total for China's people." Some experts say that the United States is heading in that direction and a "population law" would help, in especially unplanned pregnancies. What do you think? Should there be a limit in how many children a couple can have, provided they have the means to take care of them? Or is this a violation of someone's right to bear children?

info provided by: http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/kane98/kanep2/chinas1kid/dcva2.html