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 * Lack of Female People in China**

On January 11, there was an report made by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences that by the year of 2020, more than 20 million men that are old enough to marry will have trouble finding spouses. This has happened mostly because of China's one child policy which has caused people to abortion of their babies. Those abortions are mostly for female babies because of China's bias toward male children. China Daily said that "The policy has prevented about 400 million births." Also in some provinces in China, for every 100 girls born there will be 130 boys born. This gender imbalance will probably force older women to marry younger men in the next decade probably. By the year 2050, the predicted population in China will be 1.6 billion and their current population is 1.3 billion. China has said that they're planning to keep the one-child policy for another decade. The latest figures produced by the Academy's study on this issue is that for every 100 girls born in China, 119 boys are born.

Sources: BBC: [] CNN: []

Some similarities that I noticed was that they both had similar titles. They both talked about the issue about how men will have a hard time finding spouses by 2020 due to gender imbalance. They both talked about how the population will change over time due to gender imbalance, also they both talked about the study made by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Finally they talked about the country's one child policy and how it affected the people there and their future plan about whether or not to have kids. Some differences that I noticed were the quotes included in each article. Also the BBC article had this one statistic about the number of kids born in provinces in China which the CNN article didn't have. The BBC was a little more specific when it comes to talk about how the one-child policy has affected couples in China's thinking and their reluctance to have a kid.

My opinion on this event is that if I were a man living in China I would be sad because my chances of finding a spouse would be hard due to amount of less women than men. I think I would get rid of the one-child policy because it finally caught up to China and now is affecting their gender imbalance. It stopped the birth of millions of babies which is shocking, this one policy has affected China in a such big way because it affects the next generations of people in China. I never knew about the one-child policy, but now I do and I can see how it affects China in a big way.