Ludwig
January 18th, 2013, 1:20 PM
A lesson from China, but will we learn?
We all know the devastating cost of China’s one-child policy, such as forced abortions and the outright murder of baby girls. But there’s also a more subtle cost that nobody anticipated. The central planners who imposed China’s rigid population control policy in 1979 thought they were building a more perfect society of communist workers. Instead, they were creating what Chinese researchers have dubbed “the little emperor effect.” A study of 421 Beijing children found that those born after the “one-child” policy began and raised as only children were more likely to be spoiled, demanding and neurotic. With no siblings, they had fewer opportunities to learn social skills, like sharing. Researchers say if that generation remains self-centered and uncooperative into adulthood, it could have severely negative effects on Chinese society. In their unwavering faith in government to control human nature, Chinese leaders forgot the one iron-fisted law that can never be repealed: the law of unintended consequences.
source: www.mikehuckabee.com
We all know the devastating cost of China’s one-child policy, such as forced abortions and the outright murder of baby girls. But there’s also a more subtle cost that nobody anticipated. The central planners who imposed China’s rigid population control policy in 1979 thought they were building a more perfect society of communist workers. Instead, they were creating what Chinese researchers have dubbed “the little emperor effect.” A study of 421 Beijing children found that those born after the “one-child” policy began and raised as only children were more likely to be spoiled, demanding and neurotic. With no siblings, they had fewer opportunities to learn social skills, like sharing. Researchers say if that generation remains self-centered and uncooperative into adulthood, it could have severely negative effects on Chinese society. In their unwavering faith in government to control human nature, Chinese leaders forgot the one iron-fisted law that can never be repealed: the law of unintended consequences.
source: www.mikehuckabee.com