Comments by "kristine Sharp" (@kristinesharp6286) on "The Chinese React To New 3-Child Policy | Street Interview" video.

Except when all families are small people put all their money into their small family. There is always something to compare to to feel you are behind and someone else is ahead. China should not say 1,2 or 3 children. They should make an economy that can support whatever the individual wants in terms of family size.
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@karna5998 they had fines and refused benefits for 2nd and later order children to get education and healthcare.
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Call me a capitalist but why in the name of all that is good can’t the government of China not have a specific number of children per couple? For decades most the country have more than 1 pair of shoes, access to education, access to medical care and a varied diet. Now they have this economy set up, housing set up for single people, childless couples and one child families. I’d like the government of China not to decide what age or what number or whether the person is married or single and let them have the babies that come!
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@Treavor Martin They kept 1 child policy too long. Day care has been invented. Before couples waiting until 30’s to have kids grandparents young enough to help raise as well. Neither parent has to stop working. In the west the parents that stop want to cause honestly you can work your whole life you can only parent a few years. Going back to work after a time out of the work force is no problem. Going to school later in life to get a different degree or skill is also no problem. Getting hired when older is also no big deal. The oldest person is not always right. No workplace issues having a boss younger than you. It’s not seen as lazy to have a break. They wanted the birth rate to be below replacement. When you encourage extra birth or encourage a reduction in births you get a short term economic boom. Then heck breaks loose. No country should every go out of their way to encourage more than 4 or less than 2. And only for extreme reason should it get involved at all. Russia encouraged 5 boys for the army China said 1 or none. Both had a ridiculous number of children in state care and sent many of them off for international adoption. When a government gets too involved it ends up with a lot of kids on its hands.
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Middle class has a lot better quality of life than generations ago. Too much consumerism.
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Yet most places have accessible medical, accessible education, housing with indoor plumbing and temp controlled, multiple pairs of shoes... Now poverty is having only one designer handbag. Housing is twice the size for half the people.
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@karna5998 the gov said it’s patriotic and made it be about peer pressure, sometimes work pressure to stop at one. You really think people will patriotically have more to suit the gov. Let’s hope they don’t do awful things insisting on bigger families like they did awful things making people stop at one and delay the first.
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Plenty of people in other world cities after the 50’s had more than 1 kid.
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Things have changed in 70 years. Children are a blessing. The government could not give all the people the quality of life if they all had kids. So many never married. With equality they all could. But then more people. So they demanded their population serve them instead of serving the population.
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@wip1664 I’m an American who is Irish Catholic. Imagine you have one parent and absent father and no siblings. Grandparents died. How are you going to assist your mom and pay your bills at the same time when she gets sick? You did not marry. You are one income. China may have killed everyone for 9 generations in a poor maid’s family in the palace cause she helped her mistress poison an heir. But usually family is an asset, even the screwed up relations. It’s not usually fatal. The entire reason we live and breath is relationships with others. Not to build a better mousetrap, acquire gold or be really clever for 70 years only to be compost. We are certainly not here to amuse and serve ‘the leader’.
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@wip1664 I have skin in the game. I am thrilled to parent but I hate the reason why I am able to parent. I have one child, a son born in China. I am parenting because the government of China decides when a person can marry and when a person can have one child and when a person no longer can have children. Maybe mom was an adult but not old enough for officials to marry? Perhaps old enough but it would be outside their quota? Maybe it was a second pregnancy? There are a multiple number of maybe’s. Why did he have to sacrifice his parents and they him? Leave uncle’s gambling debts and consequences to uncle this a parent child separation we are talking about. Because the government controlled and managed resources and asked too much of the population to be able to do so. Obviously nature is not just wanting humans to have one child. About 15 years of a woman’s 20’s and 30’s is pregnancy with a good outcome possible. Why would nature give humans such a long fertile period past education and training age to only have one child? Gestation is 40 weeks and weening takes weeks to maybe a year. Once the child can eat solids it’s really not necessary to keep doing it. Does not make sense to only have 1. A couple could easily have 4 kids with good spacing. If you are going to advocate for many to be childless, and they should be if they want that, others will have to have more than 2 kids. The public won’t believe they have been lied to for 40 years. They will continue to think society and government wants 1 or less babies from them individually.
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@wip1664 google maps or next time in a plane look down. There is plenty of room for wildlife, people and crops.
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@wip1664 no income coming in is no income coming in.
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@wip1664 technology increase rice yields 10x’s in the 50’s. We now have High rise apartments. We have desalination for water. Technology does help. The worldwide fertility rate is barely above replacement. 2.3 per woman. Replacement is 2.1 per woman. It is not an issue.
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@wip1664 you don’t believe in math if you disregard fertility rate. Rate is what matters. The only thing that will destroy the planet is if the magma stops coming to the ocean and land surface, the seas stop moving, the air stops moving, Mother Nature is not starving people, it’s leaders in countries like North Korea that cause starvation to occur. Like the English did the Irish in the 19th century. Man made problem. More or less people change the ratio. The fertility rate was much higher a century ago and yet we more than doubled the production of rice and expanded housing vertical leaving land free for farming and wildlife in the process. The earth does just fine recycling itself and will be spinning long after we are gone.
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@wip1664 if the only child of the single mom needs to take off to care for single mom there is no income. And the only child isn’t married. No one is providing income. It’s good to have siblings. Or spouses.
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@wip1664 I’m saying a married couple are both working. Her mom gets sick. Her mom has no other family. Wife takes a leave with not the same worry as if single cause her household has another income earner in it. If she is single no one is working. If there is another daughter they can take turns being with mom when she goes for her knee replacement. Then they both can continue to earn half their pay. Or the one with a job with family leave takes it. The single woman her unmarried mom are stuck.
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@wip1664 I have no situation. I have family. I am saying the problem with not having children or marrying is a problem not only for society but also for the individual. And the government can’t fix it.
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@wip1664 raising a child watching preschool tv shows I overheard directly into the program or a PSA commercial between programs to “reduce, reuse, recycle”, climate change, alternative energy, environment or the phrase the planet about 2 times per hour. As he got older it was about 4 times per hour of programming. When covid hit I was next to him for several months and wouldn’t you know it has made its way into every subject. Ironically he also learning in science how the earth’s crust rises and fall. It’s not only dependent on the ice at the poles. But really no attention to how it contradicts. Even his speech therapy assignments included content to read and answer questions about climate change. I went to parochial school and didn’t hear or read the words God or Jesus this much. Saying the word 1000 times a year every year will not make it so. There is a hint of the Great Leap Forward in all this and we know how that turned out. The oldest man made structure in the world is at best 5000 years old. Planet is billions of years old and humans around tens of million years. There were cities that rose and fell often. We did not suddenly figure out tools 5000 years ago. People have relocated often. The earth has always changed. It is not linear but snowball in speed. My husband was born in an island that was existing above water a million years ago. Because of plate movements it will be gone in 50-80 million years. Not because someone drive a gas powered car on it. The earth isn’t our mother. The first human cell did not come from the planet.
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@wip1664 my mom is fine. There have been times my late father or my mom have had a medical issue. Thank goodness I was married. Thank goodness I have a sibling. Thank goodness I have cousins. Thank goodness they had siblings (my aunts and uncles) to be quite honest. It really helped with child care, keeping the mortgage paid, and for caregiving of the person who was ill while getting a few breaks and supporting one another. I had family leave for my father, my sister did not. It was great one of us had it. For mom it was great I was home with my child and we both were not busy 10-2 on Wednesdays. For my grandmother it was great my cousin was free to drive her to appointments. They appreciated all the people around them. That is why two or more generations having one kid or none a bad idea. People in large part avoiding marriage a bad idea. There are many in China right now without any siblings or cousins to help care a grandparent or parent. They are doing it alone all for the government butting in. 2 child regulations began in the 70’s. That is a long time to control people.
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@wip1664 yes. But my father who passed away and my mom who is alive both have had health incidents. They greatly benefited from having each other, children and their own siblings around. They also benefited from having siblings, children and nieces/nephews to help when their own parents were declining. It is too many generations leaving many without siblings and cousins and aunt/uncles in China. I’d hate for this to be the norm.
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@wip1664 government should be made up of the members of society. People are good. The biggest environmental problem in northeast Asia is the dust trim the desert making the air quality poor in China and and Korea. But you can not control the wind. It is the earth distributing nutrients from one region to another, just like it distributes precipitation from one area to the next. It’s it not people. Areas that were sea bed are not mountains. Areas that were tropical are not in the Antarctic. The news, government and published science is focusing too much on the atmosphere. They have forgotten the other scientific categories. It’s the earth if flat people all over again. We have very little date from proper instruments in the short written history of humans. Let us take Just Harry as an example. He flew on a private plane as well of tons of self important people flying privately to the Mediterranean for a google camp to talk about the environment. He promised to only have one other child with his then 38 year old wife. (Eye roll she is is 38 women are not usually fertile without help in their 40’s if they started having late in life already). Did google ever hear of google meets? It’s a tech company. They could not have saved the plane fuel? Pollution you can see is my concern. Used plastics should be processed or buried without having to go on a boat so they don’t get into the stomach of wildlife. They won’t bag cause of covid anymore but at least there is a drop off of the plastic bags at the stores. I mostly use reusable water bottles. My country but for one town has safe water. The world will not end in 2031 like AOC says. There need to be young workers to care of you when you are 77 or 87. Population should always be a little over replacement.
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@wip1664 do you have shoes and all your teeth or replacement teeth that are impossible for others to tell they are fake? Do you eat food from another part of the globe cause it is not possible to grow where you live or possible to grow in every season yet they are there in the store? If you had a heart attack on the street would an ambulance bring you to a hospital and would a doctor treat you before you became conscience after getting to the ER after a car accident? Do you have a phone to call 911/119? Can you attend college at 18 or 58? Can you chose your occupation? Can you change occupation? We are more comfortable than we have been in the past. They have stopped teaching history. In the past you would not be able to divorce. You would not have chosen your spouse. You may not have been allowed to marry at all. You can have no children or 20. Why is a society so better off than the past feeling they are not getting by okay? Why do we think people will starve if there are 3 people in a 3 bedroom apartment of 900ft2? Now one room is a closet instead of a bedroom with a child in it.
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@wip1664 you have been brainwashed.
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@lemonjz how many singles or couples ache because they wanted a spouse and there was none, another child because they lost most their parents and any great and a uncles grandparents. The gov is slow in turning on and off such control.
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