But duality can always play tricks on you. I have never seen such a comprehensive piece that discusses the duality of a one child policy.
Maybe the problem with a policy is that an intent of a policy, cannot always be fulfilled with some duality showing up. Or maybe the policies themselves are not good or bad but are duality in nature ins is ability to me avoided or manipulated.
The article is long (worth the read however) so let me at pull out a few of the duality focused areas and quote them here.
"In January 2010 the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) showed what can happen to a country when girl babies don’t count. Within ten years, the academy said, one in five young men would be unable to find a bride because of the death of young women".
"The surplus of bachelors—called in China guanggun, or “bare branches”— seems to have accelerated between 1990 and 2005, in ways not obviously linked to the one-child policy, which was introduced in 1979. And, as is becoming clear, the war against baby girls is not confined to China."
"The real cause, argues Nick Eberstadt, a demographer at the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC, is not any country’s particular policy but “the fateful collision between overweening son preference, the use of rapidly spreading prenatal sex-determination technology and declining fertility.” These are global trends. And the selective destruction of baby girls is global, too."
“Boys are slightly more likely to die in infancy than girls. To compensate, more boys are born than girls so there will be equal numbers of young men and women at puberty. In all societies that record births, between 103 and 106 boys are normally born for every 100 girls. The ratio has been so stable over time that it appears to be the natural order of things.”
">"These rates are biologically impossible without human intervention"
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