Quotes About China's One Child Policy

#1. Overall employment pressure is also fading because China's working-age population peaked in 2011 and the fall is expected to accelerate, due largely to the decades-old one-child policy.

Anonymous

#2. Wife," he murmured.
"Damn. The bastard fought dirty. Wife was her favorite word.

Erin Kellison

#3. I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

Sam Claflin

#4. Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#5. China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of 'missing girls' as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns.

Chris Smith

#6. Because, shit for brains, she'd like you to disappear and leave her alone. I'm sure she'd like to stuff you in a hole, but since that isn't going to happen, second choice is you go home to your new wife and leave her the hell alone. You get that? Greg

Robyn Carr

#7. It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.

Felicia Day

#9. Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Julian Casablancas

#10. The media tycoon Ted Turner told a newspaper reporter in 2010 that other countries should follow China's lead in instituting a one-child policy to reduce global population over time.

Matt Ridley

#11. Love was a lot more complicated when you had a lot of time on your hands.

Shannon A. Thompson

#12. Wrong are those who magnify the decree of the Father, and the atonement of the Son, so as to depreciate the work of the Spirit.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.

Stephen Chbosky

#14. Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.

Barbara Demick

#15. Even if I never get out of Clover, even if I never get into Northwestern or write for the New Yorker, even if these are just delusions occupying my time, thank God they are, because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't life worth living.

Chris Colfer

#16. China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.

Barbara Demick