I think I post Wow alot when I reply to your entries. I cannot imagine thinking of abortion as a way of birth control. But I guess in a country where you were not allowed to have more than one child and inwhich you have no religious higher authority to answer to it's not that big of a deal. Then again, Sweden supposedly uses abortion as every day birth control too. I would have been flabbergasted as well.
I just learned that one of my co-workers is pregnant with her third child. She had told me that she didn't want any more children because she already had two daughters and was ready for them to be less dependent on her - one is school age and the other is not. But her husband kept pressuring her to have children because he wanted a boy. She said she told him that he could have the baby then because she was done. Now she's pregnant again, sick, and generally unhappy. I feel so bad for her. We joked around and I said I hoped it was a boy and we could go do a rain dance for her to persuade the gods to make the baby a boy.
I watched a show on Travel Channel last night called Atlas and it was all about China. Each week they are going to highlight a new country. I watched it in hopes they would feature Nanjing but they stuck mainly with Shanghai, Beijing and then the Mongol areas. They did talk about how the people of China were now allowed to have more than one child but in a country so poor I wondered if families weren't deciding to not have more than one child.
The show featured China as a beautiful country with wonderful people in it. I was saddened though because the non-city dwelling people seemed sad about the way their country is swinging into the future and leaving the past and their culture behind, to become more westernized.
I think I'm going to have to find a book about the cultural revolution, it's just fascinating to me.
The country looks so beautiful. The topography alone from the coastal areas to the vast deserts to the mountains, it's amazing.
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Date: 2006-10-02 03:38 pm (UTC)I think I post Wow alot when I reply to your entries. I cannot imagine thinking of abortion as a way of birth control. But I guess in a country where you were not allowed to have more than one child and inwhich you have no religious higher authority to answer to it's not that big of a deal. Then again, Sweden supposedly uses abortion as every day birth control too. I would have been flabbergasted as well.
I just learned that one of my co-workers is pregnant with her third child. She had told me that she didn't want any more children because she already had two daughters and was ready for them to be less dependent on her - one is school age and the other is not. But her husband kept pressuring her to have children because he wanted a boy. She said she told him that he could have the baby then because she was done. Now she's pregnant again, sick, and generally unhappy. I feel so bad for her. We joked around and I said I hoped it was a boy and we could go do a rain dance for her to persuade the gods to make the baby a boy.
I watched a show on Travel Channel last night called Atlas and it was all about China. Each week they are going to highlight a new country. I watched it in hopes they would feature Nanjing but they stuck mainly with Shanghai, Beijing and then the Mongol areas. They did talk about how the people of China were now allowed to have more than one child but in a country so poor I wondered if families weren't deciding to not have more than one child.
The show featured China as a beautiful country with wonderful people in it. I was saddened though because the non-city dwelling people seemed sad about the way their country is swinging into the future and leaving the past and their culture behind, to become more westernized.
I think I'm going to have to find a book about the cultural revolution, it's just fascinating to me.
The country looks so beautiful. The topography alone from the coastal areas to the vast deserts to the mountains, it's amazing.