Blog # 1

 In the article “One-Child Policy is One Big Problem for China” by Susan scutti published on Newsweek.com January 23, 2014, the author describes what the one child policy is and how families can be affected by it. In 1979 the government wanted to do something about the population of China so they made the one child policy to decrease China’s 975 millon people. In the early 1980’s rural villages concentrated on coercive practices that include things like forced late-term abortions and involuntary sterilization as well as the “neighborly” snitching on pregnant couples who dared to have a 2^nd child. Later Blackish rural communities prompted the government to modify the rule and give those families the right to have a 2^nd child when their first was either a girl or disabled. “This pairing of “girl” and “disabled” is hardly an accident” Sons not only carry the family line, they are expected to provide for their parents during the elder years. When a women marries, she is obligated to her husband’s family so her parents have no one to care for them in their elder years. Sadly, abortions do not account for all the missing girls in China. There are currently 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls in China. In 2000 14.7% of unmarried men admitted to paying for sex which is growing a market for trafficking women in Mongolia, North Korea and many others.

I looked at this article many different ways, I enjoyed it because reading about different cultures and how they do things are interesting because no place is ever the same. Saying that I don’t agree with what was done. Only letting parents have one child is not the right way to do things, the government shouldn't be able to choose the lifestyle families have to live, especially with them being aware of what’s going to happen if they have a girl. They have no one to care for them when they are elders, and what could happen with their daughter before that. I also don’t agree with the girls once they are married being obligated to the husbands family, if the girl wants to stay in contact with her parents, that should be her choice. My only question would be what happens to the girls that don’t get aborted? Overall it was a very interesting article and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Self Introduction

Brittany Peterson

Self-introduction

English 99

As you guys know my name is Brittany Peterson, I am a 2014 graduate from Hastings High School. This is my second semester here at Inver Hills and so far I have enjoyed everything about it, especially my LCOM class I took last semester although I have a feeling this semesters could be a lot better because this class actually talks. I am attending Inver Hills to become and RN and if everything works out I will be graduating in 2017 with my Associates degree in Nursing. I currently switch off living in between my moms house in Hastings and my dads house in Farmington every other week. I have a 13 year old sister who is a 7^th grader at Hastings Middle School and is a competitive traveling soccer player so a lot of weekends I am doing my homework on the sidelines of her games. My main hobby is bowling, I was raised around it. I started when I was 3 years old with a league every Saturday morning with my cousins and then sometimes youth tournaments on Sundays. My dad and Grandpa would have league on Tuesday nights and my mom would have leagues on Thursday nights. I took a break from bowling from about 6^th grade until 9^th grade when Hastings created a bowling team through the school. This team only lasted about a year but I kept in contact with the guy who runs Minnesota High School bowling and he put me on Rosemount’s team and I finished my high school years on that team