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Thread #139497   Message #3200581
Posted By: saulgoldie
02-Aug-11 - 08:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Be fruitful,and multiply'
Subject: RE: BS: 'Be fruitful,and multiply'
"China's reproduction rate has fallen so low that they're going to be in DEEP trouble in a generation or so. Fewer people of working age to pay into the welfare system than the old people that will be drawing out of it."

Not only that, but the ratio of men to women is also skewed too heavily on the "man" side. Seems female children are not as valued; infanticide and selective abortions "take care of it". That means they have more "fodder" for wars or to work in the mines.

Saul