Chinese Child Policy and Big City Blues-I connected these two because of the difficult issues in the city for housing and rights. I was surprised by the desire of parents to have daughters. My whole life I understood that the main problem with one child policy was the idea that parents needed a son to take care of them when they're older. I have pictures in my mind of parents sending daughters away on ice flows to avoid supporting a daughter who would just go off, find a husband and be no help in old age. It surprised me that parents wanted daughters, because sons were too expensive to set up in life. As cultures grow from farming and rural areas to industrialized and urban, needs change and daughters become much more appealing to parents. I connect this to rules in large Chinese cities requiring the expense of boys to be set up in apartments and the lack of rights for education and voting if not set up properly. On a side note I also found it interesting that the Chinese government spent money advocating daughters over sons and their decision to adjust the policy over time. Lastly how will these policies effect their population division in the future?
