Ruth Institute Blog

This is a book review of true stories from women affected by China’s one-child policy. As a soon-to-be mother of three girls, this stuff just breaks my heart. I’m posting the review because I think more people should be aware of this huge problem.

by Jonathan Mirsky

I know a British couple with a Chinese daughter, pretty and fluent in English. Of course the little girl was adopted. It is necessary to steel one’s self against three agonising thoughts: how did such children come to be here, why does one never meet an adopted Chinese boy, and what does one reply when the adopted Chinese child asks, ‘Why did my real mother let me go?’ Read more…

I knew things were bad in China thanks to its one-child policy, but this article points out horrible consequences that probably few people know about. And yet, sadly, it doesn’t look like China has learned enough to change its ways, still!

Constance Kong

The Government’s 2020 vision has been blind-sided by a think tank’s report on its population policy disaster.

To say that China’s one-child family policy has been a disaster is an understatement. A report released earlier this month by the nation’s top think tank – the Communist Government’s Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) – says that the policy has created a huge gender imbalance with significant implications for future social stability. Read more…

This is how bad things have gotten. And yet has China changed its one-child policy? Why are they still blind to what the rest of the world sees?

Just when I thought I’d heard every creative way of flogging off property when the chips are down – along comes a new one to prove me wrong – an entrepreneurial developer in Beijing, China, has decided to lure buyers to his luxury Ecological Bay project with the offer of a wedding to one of their sales ladies – and he’s even throwing in a dowry to seal the deal… Read more…

Time to start having kids, China. If you still can.

Michael Cook, Mercatornet.com

China’s rapid economic development and America’s evident vulnerabilty after the Global Financial Crisis could make the Chinese a bit smug. But as leading demographer Nicholas Eberstadt points out in a frightening article in the Far Eastern Economic Review, China faces gigantic economic problems as the legacy of its one-child policy. Read more…

Michael Cook

Who is responsible for China’s infamous one-child policy? Surprisingly, it is not 60 years of Communist rule.

Today China celebrates the 60th anniversary of Communist Party rule. The Party is highlighting the nation’s huge and powerful military, its international influence, its towering role in the world economy, and its growing prosperity, at least in the large coastal cities. It has left behind the barbarities of Mao Tse-tung and has become a “civilized”, “harmonious”, “prosperous” and “democratic” country. Read more…

Carolyn Moynihan

Girl babies adopted by American and other overseas couples from orphanages in China in recent years may have been forcibly taken from their parents, not abandoned, as the adoptive parents were told. The Los Angeles Times reports at length on a scandal that can be laid at the door of China’s inhuman population control policy and corrupt local family planning officials. Read more…