{"id":2109,"date":"2015-11-17T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2019-03-28T02:51:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T02:51:45","slug":"chinese-40-million-bachelors-can-just-share-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/chinese-40-million-bachelors-can-just-share-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese: 40 Million Bachelors Can Just Share Wives"},"content":{"rendered":"

China Daily has cheerfully announced<\/a>\u00a0the economic gains expected through the implementation of its new two-child policy:\u00a0 an increased labor force and GDP, as well as a reduction in the percentage share of elderly people.\u00a0 Official publications, however, have not asserted that the new two-child policy will balance the other great demographic disaster caused by the former one-child policy:\u00a0 the gender disparity between male and female.<\/p>\n

The new two-child policy will do little or nothing to improve the intractable gender imbalance caused by the one child policy.\u00a0 First, what about the tens of millions of men who currently cannot find wives?\u00a0\u00a0 Girls born now will not be marriage age for decades.\u00a0 Second, raising children in China is expensive, and many couples are caring for both sets of elderly parents as well.\u00a0 Those whose first child is a son may choose not to have a second child.\u00a0 Those whose first child is a daughter may choose to have a second child, but many will abort if that second child is also a daughter.\u00a0 Second daughters are extremely vulnerable to gendercide in China.\u00a0 This will not change under the two-child policy.<\/p>\n

Shortly before China announced its move to a two-child policy, Chinese economist Professor Xie Zuoshi of Shejiang University,\u00a0offered a controversial solution to China\u2019s gender imbalance<\/a>.\u00a0 Xie estimated that by the year 2020, there will be 40 million more males than females.\u00a0 These males, whom he terms \u201cguanggun\u201d or \u201cbare branches,\u201d will never be able to find wives or have children.\u00a0 Xie sees this as an economic problem with an economic solution:\u00a0 Allow men to share wives.<\/p>\n

Professor Xie\u2019s proposal ignited such a firestorm of criticism on the Chinese Internet that he has removed his original blog post, complaining that he has been \u201cendlessly abused\u201d for what he sees as an obvious solution to an intractable problem.\u00a0 His original post has nevertheless been widely quoted in the media.<\/p>\n

Xie wrote:<\/p>\n

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With so many guanggun, women are in short supply and their value increases.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t mean the market can\u2019t be adjusted.\u00a0 The guanggun problem is actually a problem of income.\u00a0 High-income men can find a woman because they can pay a higher price.\u00a0 What about low-income men?\u00a0 One solution is to have several take a wife together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Professor Xie\u2019s proposal is an outrage and underscores the fact that the largest social experiment in the history of the world \u2013 the One Child Policy \u2013 has resulted in an unmitigated demographic and social disaster.\u00a0 Xie\u2019s proposal ignores the fact that the reason there are 30 to 40 million more males living in China than females is that the females were selectively aborted \u2013 the ultimate form of discrimination against women.\u00a0 Now, Xie offers a ham-handed supply and demand analysis, with women as the \u2018goods.\u2019\u00a0 The women who survived this ongoing gendercide epidemic are expected to be wives to \u2018several\u2019 men.\u00a0 The misogyny expressed in the selective abortion of baby girls would then lead to the commodification of women as wives of several men.\u00a0 The impetus driving this proposal is concern for the needs of men, without any concern for the rights or feelings of women.<\/p>\n

The bizarre nature of Xie\u2019s proposal \u2013 about which Xie insists he is \u201cnot joking\u201d \u2014 underscores the urgency of addressing China\u2019s intractable gender imbalance \u2014 the greatest of any nation in the world, because of the unique pressure of the One Child Policy.\u00a0 Gendercide will not subside in China under the new two-child policy.\u00a0 The Chinese government must abandon all coercively enforced birth limits.\u00a0 \u00a0Further, Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers calls upon the Chinese government to enforce its ban on sex-selective abortion.<\/p>\n

Through our \u201cSave a Girl\u201d Campaign, a fieldworker will appear at the door of a woman who is pregnant or who has just given birth, and is being pressured to abort or abandon her daughter, just because she is a girl.\u00a0 We extend encouragement and practical help, offering a monthly stipend for a year to empower women to keep their daughters.\u00a0 We have saved almost 200 girls and are ending gendercide, one baby girl at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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