Why change China child adoption rules now?

I now realize why China child adoption rules have changed. The reason caused me to incredulously slap my forehead. Why didn’t I see it sooner?

By the year 2020 thirty million Chinese men will have no wives. The implications reach far beyond Chinese homes.

Newswires are chanting Chinese society will be “doomed.” Unmarried men will have fewer choices through which to “channel” their maleness. They will look for other ways to assert themselves—i.e., violence, social upheaval, maybe even terrorism.

According to one article, the Communist Party fears it will lose control of thirty million men. Consequently, the entire society, which will be expected to peak at 1.5 billion by 2033, will be destabilized. So, the Party is looking for ways to “cut them off at the pass.”

I keep thinking about Chairman Mao Zedong’s theory of “human-wave warfare”—the birthplace of China’s population explosion. Hoping to defend China against its enemies, Zedong encouraged the Chinese people to have many children.

After three decades of trying to stop this human wave, the Chinese are now faced with an unnatural consequence—what to do will all these unmarried males.

One way they are addressing the problem is by encouraging the Chinese to have more girls. The slogan “Having a daughter is as good as a son” is painted on walls of village houses.

Ironic, isn’t it? For decades girls have been discarded and aborted. Now it is discovered they are relevant after all.

Another way is to keep the girls they already have. Kidnapping and trading has become popular. Yet, to the Chinese government the most logical choice has been made. Slow down the flow of China child adoption by internationals.

In the meantime, what will be done with the girls who are in the orphanages now? Will they remain in the orphanages until they are of age to be married and then “released” back into society? Will their lives be much better once they are married? Somehow I doubt it.

Truthfully, I think it is a sad time for China child adoption. Those precious girls left behind face a bleak future.

That is why I wholeheartedly support the efforts of Half the Sky. They may never level the field for girls in China. However, if these girls cannot become part of a forever family through China child adoption, then hopefully, they will have a fighting chance to make their lives better in China.