Yang Zhizhu and his wife Chen Hong decided to have a second child despite China's one-child policy, knowing they would face severe fines but feeling they could not pass up the opportunity. Yang was fired from his professor position and fined over $22,000, though he continues legal work and gets by with help from friends. Critics argue China's one-child policy has created problems like a rapidly aging population and gender imbalance, though officials claim it helped economic growth by reducing births and conserving resources. Many propose loosening or ending the policy given changing demographics.
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YOUTH IN BLACK CAP is a movement against increasing incidences of child sexual abuse It is a peaceful movement to inform and aware communities about the increasing incidences of child sexual abuse and pressurize policy level higher officials/authorities, parliamentarians and law makers for the formulation and implementation of create child protective and friendly laws policies and programs. This is a youth led social movement where the youngsters put on black cap, hold a candle, different handbills and posters related to child sex abuse and stand in the main junctions of the city without hindering the traffic. This movement will be organized every Friday morning from 9-10. Before the organization of the movement, youths will be oriented about the concept of the movement and motivate them to be the part of the campaign. To make the movement throughout the country, local NGOs operating in the district level and youth will be mobilized. CWISH and Dynamic Youth Forum who envisioned the movement will coordinate with different organizations and make a coordination committee to launch the movement from central level. The secretariat of the committee will be in CWISH office, Buddhanagar. The organizations involved in the movement will have active participation. Interested individuals without institutional affiliation can also make voluntary contribution and take part actively in the movement. Coordination committee will provide technical support in need. The movement will be launched in 19 November which is also celebrated as world’s day against child abuse. On this occasion letter of demand will also be submitted to the prime minister.
More than half of the women in India are married before the legal minimum age of 18. By contrast, men in the same age group get married at a median age of 23.4 years. Sixteen percent of men aged 20-49 are married by age 18 and 28 percent by age 20.
HAQ: Center for Child Rights
B1/2, Ground Floor,
Malviya Nagar
New Delhi - 110017
Tel: +91-26677412,26673599
Fax: +91-26674688
Website: www.haqcrc.org
FaceBook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HaqCentreForChildRights
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1. Thirty years of China's one-child policy
When China introduced its drastic population controls, officials promised that it would
lift them after 30 years - an anniversary which falls this weekend. Malcolm Moore talks
to families about what the one-child policy has meant to them.
Yang Zhizhu with his two daughters 3-year-old Yang Ruoyi and 9-month-old Yang Ruonan.
By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai 6:00PM BST 25 Sep 2010
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Yang Zhizhu knew the dire consequences of breaking China's one-child policy. He would be
stripped of his professorship at a Beijing university and hit with such a large fine that his family would
be destitute.
But when he found out that his wife, Chen Hong, was pregnant for the second time aged 38, they
decided they could not let the opportunity pass.
"We never planned this, but despite the problems we knew it would cause, we were over the moon,"
he said. "How much longer can the one-child policy last, anyway?"
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When China introduced its drastic population controls, officials promised that it would lift them after
30 years - an anniversary which falls this weekend. Aware of the resentment the policy would cause,
the government said it was a temporary measure in response to China's high unemployment and
food scarcity.
"In 30 years, when our current extreme population growth eases, we can then adopt a different
population policy," read the announcement from the Communist Party Central Committee.
But today, the one-child policy remains firmly in place and government officials cannot shake the
idea that it has played an important role in China's economic miracle.
With only one child to care for, parents have been able to save more money, enabling banks to
make the loans that have funded China's huge investments in infrastructure.
Meanwhile, officials claim the policy has conserved food and energy and allowed each child better
education and healthcare.
"We will continue the one-child policy until at least 2015," said the National Family Planning
Commission earlier this year.
In his home in Beijing, Mr Yang, 44, remains delighted at Yang Ruonan, his six-month-old baby girl,
and defiant over his decision. Outwardly bubbly, he said former students were helping him and his
wife financially to care for his two daughters, the older of whom, Yang Ruoyi, is now three.
Not all offenders against the one-child policy are so fortunate. Many of China's 11 million abortions
each year are forced on unwilling mothers by family planning officials.
Nevertheless, Mr Yang lives under the shadow of the Chinese law. At the beginning of the month, a
curt notice from the Beijing family planning department informed him that a fine of 220,600 yuan
(£22,000) would, at some point, be "forcibly collected".
2. Earlier this year, officials visited the head of the China Youth University of Political Science, where
Mr Yang taught law, and persuaded the college to fire him.
The university continues to pay him a stipend, but at 360 yuan (£36) a month, it is not a living wage.
"My wife and I manage to get by. She is not working, but I have some savings and I do some part-
time legal work," he said.
Unable to pay the fine, Mr Yang chose to protest, parading himself in Beijing with a sign offering to
become a slave if a donor would pay 640,000 yuan to clear his debt and set his family up. "It was
more of a protest than a serious offer, but I would still consider it if someone came forward," he said.
The fine is known as a "social upbringing fee" and is designed to cover the cost to the state of a
second child. But Mr Yang says he has no reason to pay. "We feed our own children, our second
daughter is not even registered. Without that she has no rights."
He added: "The only reason the one-child policy is still so popular is that more than a million
government officials now work directly or indirectly for the population control department. They are
not going to take away their own bread."
The government believes the policy has prevented 400 million births, which would otherwise have
stretched the resources of China, and the world, to breaking point.
Critics, however, say it has created a rapidly ageing society, with each only child having to care for
two parents and four grandparents. In 2009, almost 13 per cent of China's population was over 60
and the share is growing rapidly. Meanwhile, a preference in Chinese families for boys over girls has
created a surplus of 24 million men who will not be able to find a wife to marry.
"Everyone has blindly accepted the fact that population control has helped China's economy, but it
has never been proven," said Liang Zhongtang, 62, a former member of the expert committee of the
National Family Planning department.
"In fact, by 2030, no matter what policy China adopts the population will start to shrink. And I have
never seen a country with a shrinking population and sound economic development. Western
countries may have shrinking populations, but they have immigrants to make up their labour force.
China does not have large immigration, so aiming for a zero or negative birth rate is very risky."
Professor Liang said population growth had been the scapegoat for unemployment and food
shortages at a time when the Communist party could not blame the disastrous reign of Chairman
Mao.
Not everyone is bound by it even now: in the countryside, parents are allowed to try for a second
child if their first is a girl. Even so, it still causes severe bitterness, with many refusing to pay their
fines and fighting bitterly against compulsory abortions. In the cities, a generation of lonely children
has been burdened by the pressure of having to live up to their parents' expectations, and by the
worry of eventually having to bear the financial burden of caring for them.
3. Wang Yuanyuan, an accountant at Carrefour who was born in the first year of the one-child policy,
said being an only child had blighted her life. "My parents were obsessed with me, I was smothered
at home and they tried to interfere with my life all the time," she said. "I had to end my first
relationship because the boy was three years older and my parents said it was unlucky."
Then she had to reject a good job offer that meant moving away. "My mum and dad both cried all
day and begged me not to leave. I'm angry they ruined that chance for me."
Across China, there are proposals to loosen slightly the rules next year, to allow couples to have two
children if one of them is an only child.
But Hu Angang, 57, a director of China Studies at Tsinghua University, said it was now time for the
government to remove the policy altogether.
"I proposed at the end of last year a two child policy, and while the government has not adopted my
proposal, senior officials have stopped praising the one-child policy," he said. "The challenge is now
to avoid a hard landing."