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4280.       Elisabeth
5732 posts
 12 Jan 2010 Tue 10:37 pm

 

Quoting barba_mama

Mmm... I wonder if there is a country in which there is a man shortage. They could organise marriage holidays!

 

 Maybe we will start to see "male harems?"  {#emotions_dlg.think}

 

 

4281.       alameda
3499 posts
 13 Jan 2010 Wed 04:54 am

 

Quoting Elisabeth

China’s Bride Shortage is the Result of Gender Specific Abortion Fervor

 

...................The options for the new generation of “bride-less” Chinese men are fairly limiting. If there are no available women in their age group to marry then the men will be forced to choose women who are far older than they are and some may attempt to marry young girls who are far younger............

 

This can and probably will get very ugly. Nothing like a few million males with no female companionship around.

 

Makes the old saying...."think ahead".... more pertinent, don´t you think?



Edited (1/13/2010) by alameda [add]

4282.       barba_mama
1629 posts
 13 Jan 2010 Wed 11:23 am

 

Quoting Elisabeth

 

 

 Maybe we will start to see "male harems?"  {#emotions_dlg.think}

 

 

 

 {#emotions_dlg.eeek} .....

I have some news everybody, I´m moving to China!

4283.       Daydreamer
3743 posts
 13 Jan 2010 Wed 11:50 am

A while ago I saw a really interesting documentary about the bridal situation in China. I suppose you cannot try to correct nature even if you´re a communistic government...

4284.       Elisabeth
5732 posts
 13 Jan 2010 Wed 04:32 pm

I can´t imagine being disappointed about a daughter.  It is such a twisted way of thinking....so twisted that a mother would abort (this would have to be around the 20 week mark where sex can be determined) or abandon another human being.  As a mother, I can´t think of anything more monsterous.  The Chinese government is allowing/condoning a genocide on the female sex.   

4285.       barba_mama
1629 posts
 13 Jan 2010 Wed 06:40 pm

I have two female Chinese friends, who I´ve met through my university study. It is very interesting to talk to them, and to get used to the Chinese situation. At my study there were a lot of Chinese people, and usually one of the first question you ask somebody when you are getting to know them is about family. I really had to get it out of my head to ask the question "do you have any brothers or sisters?" A big issue for one of my friends today is her last name. Since she is an only child, but also female, the entire family name is on her shoulders. And she doesn´t have a very common Chinese name, so she is thinking about giving her child her own last name instead of her husbands name.

4286.       Elisabeth
5732 posts
 13 Jan 2010 Wed 06:45 pm

 

Quoting barba_mama

I have two female Chinese friends, who I´ve met through my university study. It is very interesting to talk to them, and to get used to the Chinese situation. At my study there were a lot of Chinese people, and usually one of the first question you ask somebody when you are getting to know them is about family. I really had to get it out of my head to ask the question "do you have any brothers or sisters?" A big issue for one of my friends today is her last name. Since she is an only child, but also female, the entire family name is on her shoulders. And she doesn´t have a very common Chinese name, so she is thinking about giving her child her own last name instead of her husbands name.

 

 That would mean that the ENTIRE reason for her husbands existance (to carry on HIS families last name) would be pointless (according to the Chinese way of thinking)!  I wonder if she will ever find a man willing to do this for her. 

4287.       lady in red
6947 posts
 13 Jan 2010 Wed 06:45 pm

My son lives in China and is engaged to a Chinese girl.  I wonder how Chinese men feel about a foreigner ´taking´ one of their few available women {#emotions_dlg.unsure}.  

 

There are actually 3 children in her family, 2 girls and one boy - but apparently her parents had/have to pay a ´fine´ (in the form of extra taxes) for the privilege of having more than one child.

4288.       barba_mama
1629 posts
 13 Jan 2010 Wed 08:57 pm

 

Quoting Elisabeth

 

 

 That would mean that the ENTIRE reason for her husbands existance (to carry on HIS families last name) would be pointless (according to the Chinese way of thinking)!  I wonder if she will ever find a man willing to do this for her. 

 

 

Her husband is Dutch, he doesn´t give a hoot about his family´s name A name is nothing but a bunch of letters, that make a phonecall a lot longer. "Can you spell that please, sir?"

4289.       lemon
1374 posts
 15 Jan 2010 Fri 03:49 am

you know what i think about this? (note i think a lot )

 

it should be females surname that should carry on.

 

theres only one precious egg to zillions of sperms.

 

no egg no child! no sperm no problem! the egg can be fertilized by any other cell.

 

so actually we are that single precious egg. we should carry mothers family name.

4290.       catwoman
8933 posts
 15 Jan 2010 Fri 04:05 am

 

Quoting lemon

 

so actually we are that single precious egg. we should carry mothers family name.

 

of course that´s how it should be.. 



Edited (1/15/2010) by catwoman

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