Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Social Engineering
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It's been reported that China will have 30-million more men of marriageable age than women in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting from a tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced, state media reported.
Wouldn't Americans have just gone berserk if someone told them how many kids they can or cannot have? And just imagine the reaction if we learned that nation - in Sot=uth America, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa or wherever - enacted a policy of taking every child from women under the age of 20 and gave them to women over the age of 30. or, if they demanded that every child of a person or couple earning less than the equivalent of $20,000 a year must be immediately removed for the protection of the child and placed with a family earning in excess of $60,000.
Americans would see this as equally as bizarre as China's restrictions on childbirth. How totally opposed to the "freedom" we hold so dear in the USA.
And yet, while not laws...they certainly are social standards. Once it was single versus marrieds in terms of who was deemed "ready" and able to make good parents. But money and age have definitely taken over as the most important criteria. If you are single, as long as you are "mature" and can "afford" to raise a child (read afford day care or a nanny) it is socially acceptable and you will receive not a word of pressure to relinquish your child. You will not be told how many deserving couple s there are and how a child needs a mother and father. In fact, single women of means can - and do - avail themselves of reproductive technologies and adoption, without any questions asked! If you can afford, you deserve it...that's the American way!
If you are young and have no income of your own, or older and poor - even if married - watch out! The hawks and vultures will be circling to obtain any child you bring into the world. You will be scorned and told how selfish you are.
Brave New World has met The Handmaids! Social engineering while not directly legislated, aided by laws and polices. Reduce welfare to single mother; deny them abortions and any means of day care; offer tax breaks for adopters and strangers who foster but not to family members. Offer federal incentives to state to speed adoptions taken from mothers for the "crime" of not having a baby sitter one day while she goes to work, cause she has no sick time on her minimum wage job. Tighten the rope. Squeeze them till the hand over the golden egg.
It's been reported that China will have 30-million more men of marriageable age than women in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting from a tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced, state media reported.
Wouldn't Americans have just gone berserk if someone told them how many kids they can or cannot have? And just imagine the reaction if we learned that nation - in Sot=uth America, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa or wherever - enacted a policy of taking every child from women under the age of 20 and gave them to women over the age of 30. or, if they demanded that every child of a person or couple earning less than the equivalent of $20,000 a year must be immediately removed for the protection of the child and placed with a family earning in excess of $60,000.
Americans would see this as equally as bizarre as China's restrictions on childbirth. How totally opposed to the "freedom" we hold so dear in the USA.
And yet, while not laws...they certainly are social standards. Once it was single versus marrieds in terms of who was deemed "ready" and able to make good parents. But money and age have definitely taken over as the most important criteria. If you are single, as long as you are "mature" and can "afford" to raise a child (read afford day care or a nanny) it is socially acceptable and you will receive not a word of pressure to relinquish your child. You will not be told how many deserving couple s there are and how a child needs a mother and father. In fact, single women of means can - and do - avail themselves of reproductive technologies and adoption, without any questions asked! If you can afford, you deserve it...that's the American way!
If you are young and have no income of your own, or older and poor - even if married - watch out! The hawks and vultures will be circling to obtain any child you bring into the world. You will be scorned and told how selfish you are.
Brave New World has met The Handmaids! Social engineering while not directly legislated, aided by laws and polices. Reduce welfare to single mother; deny them abortions and any means of day care; offer tax breaks for adopters and strangers who foster but not to family members. Offer federal incentives to state to speed adoptions taken from mothers for the "crime" of not having a baby sitter one day while she goes to work, cause she has no sick time on her minimum wage job. Tighten the rope. Squeeze them till the hand over the golden egg.
# posted by Senior Mom @ 7:27 PM 
