From an AP story: [link]
The provincial government has estimated about 7,000 of the victims were children with no siblings. The National Population and Family Planning Commission will send a medical team to the quake zone to perform reverse sterilization operations on couples that want to have another child, Xinhua reported.
"The team, comprised of experts on childbearing, will conduct surgery in the quake-hit areas to provide technological support for those wanting to give birth to another," the director of the commission's science and technology bureau, Zhang Shikun, was quoted as saying.
Unforeseen problems with the one child rule!
Unforeseen problems with the one child rule!
No kidding. With the mass school structure failures, there's actually an unofficial mass movement of bereaved parents. China's officialdom has to mitigate it somehow to preserve itself.
t /cynic
And they are putting parents who have lost a child in the earthquake at the head of the (now very long list) list of people who want to adopt a child who lost parents in the earthquake.
I actually don't have that much of a problem with that, except for the emotional repercussions, which are kind of scary. So I do have some problems, I guess.
Aaaand since I'm acquainted with someone who was right ready to adopt a child from China and then got booted to the end of the line due to antidepressants (after all the multitude of fertility treatments she'd been through, who wouldn't be on them?!!) and fatness (also a factor of the treatments. And antidepressants!) I wouldn't want, and she wouldn't want, to be put before local able adoptive parents.
But still. I don't really believe the gov't has the children's best interests. Just theirs.
Did you all, at one point, push the Free Sterling Silver Jewelry site? Or am I on crack?
Not on crack. Got some nice stuff from there. I don't understand
how
it's not a scam, but it's not.
i've gotten a couple of nice things from there too, Kat. hey, what was that link you posted yesterday, i think it was, with the free cell phone services? the google thing and so on. i meant to bookmark it, but forgot!
I've gotten a handful of stuff off that site, Kat. Nothing that I
love,
but some small and pretty things. Quiet jewelry, not destination pieces. I wish you hadn't brought it back to my attention, though...
Hey, Kat... was it you that had the link to that site where you register to not get paper catalogs? I lost that URL in the crashes of ought eight.
