People Paradox

I felt like this film was very interesting and informative. I never knew that the population in India was becoming higher than that of China. I have always thought that China was the most overpopulated country. This film explains the increase and decrease of the birth rate in several different countries.

The first country that the movie spoke of is India. The film states that India’s population is rapidly growing and will soon pass China as the world’s most overly populated country, with over a billion and a half people. China has always been known as the country that is extremely crowded because of the overpopulation. China’s population as of January 2013 is at 1,354,040,000, which still makes it the most overpopulated country in the world, but India is not that far behind with a population of 1,210,193,422 (Population in China 2013, 2013). The Chinese government has tried to help with trying to sustain the population by implementing a “one child rule”. The “one child rule” basically is when a family is not allowed to have more than one child. This leads to the next issue, women’s health and rights.

In a perfect world there would be a family that consists of at least two children, a boy and a girl, but in India that is not the case. Women are being forced to have boys by their families. If they are pregnant and if they are carrying a girl, many women is forced to have an abortion or even miscarry all because it is not a boy. In Asian culture, it is common for the families to have a boy because the boy is the caretaker of the family when he is older. He will take care of his family as for the girl she is to be married off to another family and is no longer the responsibility of her birth family. The women are even beaten if they are not producing male children. According to the film, in India, women average about five children in their lifetime and in order for the population to become stabilized the life of women has to improve. Meaning allowing women to have the right to choose to continue to have children just to get a boy or not. Although most of the children that these women have barely live to reproductive age because of disease and lack of vaccinations, these women continue to have children so that they can appease their elders. Many women also are getting killed in India by being burned alive because they are not having boys. According the film millions of females are being aborted, leaving India with 35 million fewer women than men.

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