“Instead of abandoning its draconian program of forced population control, China is trying to put a happy-face on its extreme anti-family policies,” charged Allan C. Carlson, International Secretary of the World Congress of Families.
According to an Associated Press story, Beijing has banned the use of what it calls “crude slogans,” such as “Raise fewer babies but more piggies,” which have angered rural residents.
Also discarded are slogans which reveal too much about the way the nation’s one-child-per-family policy is enforced, such as “Houses toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected.”
There’s enormous pressure on local officials to hold down birthrates, especially in rural areas. In turn, this has led to forced abortions and fines as high as $1,300 levied on villagers who have a second child (ten times the annual income in these areas).
“It has also resulted in aborting female fetuses and even female infanticide, among couples who want at least one son,” Carlson noted. “This has led to a gender imbalance in China’s population – a male-female ratio of 119-100.”
Especially in farming communities, young men can’t find wives, which has resulted in stealing female babies and an upsurge of prostitution and sexual slavery.
“These horrors were inflicted not by a conquering power but by the Chinese Communist Party,” Carlson declared. “Sometime in this century, China will experience a labor shortage. Even now, there are too few workers to care for the elderly.”
The slogan of World Congress of Families IV (Warsaw, May 11-13, 2007) was “Beyond Demographic Winter: The Natural Family As The Springtime of Nations.” Visit
www.worldcongress.org/WCF4 to read speeches from WCF IV in Warsaw, Poland.
“In terms of Demographic Winter, China is the Arctic Circle,” Carlson commented
For more information on World Congress of Families, go to
www.worldcongress.org. To schedule an interview with Allan Carlson, contact Larry Jacobs at 1-800-461-3113 or
larry@worldcongress.org.