China to soften its one-child policy slogans, but not the law itself

Ummmm.... China sure isn't one to mince words.

Aborting female fetuses is also prevalent in India, creating a similar problem with more males than females making up their population.

If the U.S. was China, We'd pnly have 1 Kardashian.

So do you think the powers that be realized that having tens of millions of horny, impoverished, desperate young men around was not a good thing?

When someone asks me "you gonna keep trying for a boy??" I make sure they feel very stupid about carrying on some third world viewpoint that boys are better than girls here in the USA.

"to raise the population's inner quality, control the population growth" is what the characters in the picture say with the father, mother, one child, and china in the background. i want to see this journalist's sources. i've lived in china 4 years and traveled here for 10 and i've never seen his type of extremely harsh signs anywhere. perhaps the ones he mentioned were put up during the 80's? they aren't up in any of the big cities now, that's for sure.

Don't cut down all Americans on welfare. My parents were on welfare when my dad was laid off from his factory job along with 200 others. We barely had food on the table. Dad couldn't find another job and mom was trying to raise two babies. I was able to graduate from college on a Pell Grant for low income families. I received my Bachelor and Masters of Engineering, and now am in head of a large electrical engineering department. Everyone deserves a chance to better themselves. Not everyone on welfare are scumbags trying to take advantage of the system. Some people are just poor.

Wait. The one-child policy has prevented 400 MILLION BIRTHS??? THAT'S OVER THE SIZE OF THE UNITED STATES!!!

they make the women get fixed why not make the men get fixed also ????????????

we need a nationwide cross the board law here as well. yes it is your right to have as many kids as you want; however, its not my duty to feed them for you. you on public assistance you get a set check for food and adding more mouths means stretching the dollar not getting a bigger check. I was married for eight years before having my first kid because I wanted to be able to support her, and then my wife and I stopped at two cause that is all we can afford to feed. Making me support herds of children from people showing absolutely no restraint or forethought is an unfair burden, especially if they are not even US citizens.

And these are the s**theads we are trading with and doing business with. We are really a pack of money-greedy fools.

now thats what you call pro abortion

One child per woman. If parents divorce and the father remarries guess what if his wife has not had a child he can father another child. Talk about double standards.

30 to 40 million surplus males makes a very attractive military. China can afford to take a lot of casualties in a war.

Knowing how Mandarin doesn't translate all that perfectly into English, I suspect their slogans aren't nearly as harsh as this article claims.
People who say a person has the right to have as many kids as they want totally disregards the right of each child to be born to a home that is capable of properly caring for it. How many kids are born into abject poverty and starvation because their parents "had the right" to have kids they couldn't feed or house? Maybe China is too draconian about this, but it's high time people started caring more about their child's future than their right to squeeze out entire litters of kids!

What? Wait! No vasectomy? Only tubal ligation? And who said communism makes everyone equal.

If you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em!

If all I knew about China was what I read in this article I might agree with some of these horrific comments. I am embarrassed to say that before coming here in Chongqing, I might have felt the same way as some of these folks. I blame the media for such inflammatory reporting as the story above. This article is total nonsense. This does not represent the policies that are currently in China. You can have 2 children in China, but most do not WANT 2. You just have to pay the overnment more money to have more kids.They truly believe it is in the best interest of China to focus on one child and give them as much as possible. They believe the policy is good for everyone. I totally disagree with a government policy limiting the number of children or mandatory birth control as has been suggested below, but I do not believe the women I have met would want to have EVER more than 2. I am in an urban area, but the rural areas are different and this policy is not enforced in the rural areas. Chongqing has 38 million people. My apartment is very big by Chinese standards. I have 2 bedrooms, 53 sq. meters. There would not be enough room here for 2 parents, 2 children, 4 grandparents, and 8 great-grandparents. There are more interesting cultural issues about families than what this article states. It is shallow and pathetic and basically, full of crap. I am sorry that this has been reported on Yahoo.

Weird... I've been in China a lot of times, know people from different areas and economic status and never heard of those slogans before. Maybe back in the 70's but now the only I remember was a TV broadcast saying that parents must take care of the children since they are the future of the nation.

Some people understand the limited resources on earth, and then there are the Duggars.