Babies wanted: Chinese province may offer a year of maternity leave:
A landlocked province in northwest China, in an effort to encourage couples to have children, is looking to sharply increase the duration of paid maternity leave to nearly one full year, putting it on par with some developed economies in Europe.
Shaanxi is seeking public opinion on allowing an additional half a year of maternity leave on top of the current 168 days. That would put the province in the same league as European nations like Germany or Norway.
Shaanxi is also considering doubling the length of paternity leave to 30 days for couples looking to have a third child.
China announced in May that married couples may have up to three children, after data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world's most populous country.
The decision to let families have up to three children was initially met with doubts on whether it would make much difference. There were also calls for details on what supportive measures would be included.
[...] Since then, 14 provinces including Shaanxi have either amended local family planning rules or are seeking public opinion to make amendments to laws to confer extra maternity or paternity leave.
p...] China had a fertility rate of just 1.3 children per woman in 2020, recent data showed, on par with aging societies like Japan and Italy.
As the saying goes: "You may actually be one-in-a-million. Just remember that means there are 1,446 people in China exactly like you!"
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @06:32AM (13 children)
Shoot that's double or quadruple the maternity leave in the US, depending on if it's also the same length for the paternal parent.
China is starting to treat their people better than here. Writing, wall.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @06:54AM
Well wait there a minute.
China is a factory that requires raw material in the form of humans to exploit the 1/1466 chance that you are 1-in-a-million and can win gold at the Olympics. The others, meh. Go breed or make sporks or something.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @07:09AM (6 children)
According to the BLS, less than 25% of working women have access to paid maternity leave of any length and almost 10% don't even have access to unpaid leave.
And this isn't about China trying to treat their people better. This is about getting more births to support their huge population when they are too old to do it themselves. The problem is that China isn't just dealing with economic issues causing low birth rates. They also have cultural issues slowing it down. As the economic problems get worse, those cultural issues may only be exacerbated even further as things compound.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @09:34AM (5 children)
It's also the fact that China has far fewer females than males because bad policy resulted in people killing off females way in the past. China has never apologized for this.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @10:09AM (2 children)
Hmmm, I've watched "If you are the one" - the Chinese dating show.
There's like 20 girls for every guy.
And after watching an episode or two, I ask why these girls are so fussy if they can't find a bloke?
(Score: 4, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 04 2021, @12:56PM
TV is the same as reality. Everyone knows that.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @02:54PM
Nice incel snark. Those fussy women, why won't they suck my dick - I even put on clean undies today. Ladies, your so fucking fickle no wonder people like me want to rape you.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @12:02PM (1 child)
If by,
1. by far fewer, you mean a few percent? Like 10% at birth? Or do you mean their sex ratio for adults is like Norway or Czech Republic? The sex ratio is only skewed for younger demographic where ultrasound was used/available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio [wikipedia.org]
2. by "way in the past", do you mean now?
then maybe with these changes the first part is correct. But I'm even more confused why would China apologize for something that was not even policy? Should US apologize for causing millions of deaths on the road because model-T was created in America? By your logic, yes.
http://www.china.org.cn/english/government/117209.htm [china.org.cn]
The sex selection is banned in China for close to 20 years. Maybe they need to bring in a big hammer down on this but it's something not easy to tackle except through education.
(Score: 3, Funny) by shortscreen on Thursday November 04 2021, @08:07PM
Wikipedia has raw numbers but you need expert analysis to actually understand them. You see, north Africa and the Persian Gulf states are blue because their men died off in wars. India is blue because their men emigrated to the US for IT jobs.
China is blue because their men died as a result of video game addictions. Russia is red because their women were eaten by bears while out snowboarding in their underwear.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @03:57PM (3 children)
Women used to get 20 years maternity leave. But then feminists (under the direction of business interests) decided that was sexist.
I will tell you 3 years is not enough. Maybe 5, but even then you still need to arrange extra help around school drop off and pickups.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @06:59PM (1 child)
When I was 6, I walked to school 2km. Walking home was many times with friends but to school was mostly alone. Now I live in Germany and I don't see too many driving their kids to school either. So is this some US thing? Are there no sidewalks there? Or are people just paranoid?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @07:08PM
In the US if you let your kid wonder around alone, if it is not killed it will be taken away by the state for you endangering it. I too walked to day care when I was 4. Different place, different time.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @07:24PM
"But then feminists (under the direction of business interests) decided that was sexist."
This was an anti-white ploy by the International Talmudic Jew, enabled by greedy shabbos goy race traitors.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Thursday November 04 2021, @09:11PM
That's because anything which takes from the shareholders and gives to the employees is filthy communism, will destroy our society, turn us all into athiests and rape our children. Do you want us to become like VeNeZuElA?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @07:01AM (3 children)
They only want pure Chinese babies, so all you "white" American incels can just put your junk away. Nobody wants your genetic contribution, so you might as well just keep wanking away.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @07:39AM (2 children)
For a price, incels can order a Chinese baby that will be trained to become their wife. The day she turns 18 (16 for an additional fee) will be the happiest day of her life.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @10:06AM (1 child)
Which only reinforces one's suspicions that incels are bereft of all understanding of what marriage is, or, for that matter, what actual human relations are. They seem to think all human relations are like renting a backhoe, to borrow an apt khallow analogy. Oh, maybe it is not an analogy? I pay you for sex, and you give me a backhoe. If I recall correctly, that was the khallow contract.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @10:11AM
backhoe, is that a US euphemism for anal?
maybe 2 incels should try each other if they can't find a chick!
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Thursday November 04 2021, @11:34AM
Hard pass. I'll keep the 2 (or was it 3? Sorry, don't have kids) years I have now. Paid, and with workplace guarantee.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 04 2021, @01:01PM (4 children)
China should do what America is doing and open its borders to immigrants. Soon, every Chinese family could have maids and gardeners who are Pakistani, Indian, and North Korean. It would instantly solve their labor shortage and bring the diversity that has made America so strong for so long.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @07:07PM (2 children)
Well, if it wasn't for immigrants, America would have certainly been dumber.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/college-educated-immigrants-united-states-2018 [migrationpolicy.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @07:43PM (1 child)
yeah, white tax payer dollars going to send non white immigrants to college. white genocide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 04 2021, @08:24PM
Good idea, pale face, thank you.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 05 2021, @12:40AM
Ahh, the zeal of the newly-converted... :) Man, no one goes uglier than latecomers to a new religion.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Thursday November 04 2021, @07:52PM
Over there one gets a few months of fully paid vacation for child care, then up to 3 years of government assisted one with former employment spot guaranteed and up to 6 years of unpaid one. Does not have to be the mother either - anybody who provides the care qualifies. The government also gives outright bulk one time money that could be used for real estate shopping and similar and discount mortgage rates below inflation. Did I mention free healthcare with doctors making home visits the same day?
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.