Are China & India 'The Future"?

[Kathianne]

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/articles/20081128.aspx


China Faces A Sexual Crises

November 28, 2008: The U.S. National Intelligence Council recently issued a report, directed at national leaders; "Global Trends 2025:...

...The unprecedented transfer of wealth roughly from West to East now under way will continue for the foreseeable future. But beyond 2025, Russia and China face some serious demographic problems. China's "one child" policy (to halt population growth), and the unanticipated appearance of cheap sonograms (enabling parents to determine the gender of their child while there was still time for an abortion) has caused an imbalance in the gender ratio. There are now 115 boys for every 100 girls. Young men are having a problem finding wives. Wealthier urban males attract more women from the rural areas (where 70 percent of Chinese still live), leaving a lot of lonely, poor and angry young men in the countryside. The smaller generations means that the proportion of elderly (made wealthier and healthier by the booming economy) is skyrocketing, while the workforce is shrinking. Both these trends are bad, and will have negative social and economic impacts. India has the same gender imbalance problem, but a growing population that contains a higher proportion of poor people than in China. Not good...

[Kathianne]

And just came across this, seems Japan is trying to avert its own demographic disaster:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/28/japan-sexual-health


Japan workers told to go home and procreate
The aim is to allow working mothers and fathers to spend more time with their children and find the time and energy to have more sex
Justin McCurry
guardian.co.uk, Friday November 28 2008 13.12 GMT
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Japan's workers are being urged to switch off their laptops, go home early and use what little energy they have left on procreation, in the country's latest attempt to avert demographic disaster.

The drive to persuade employers that their staff would be better off at home with their wives than staying late at the office comes amid warnings from health experts that many couples are simply too tired to have sex.

A recent survey of married couples under 50 found that more than a third had not had sex in the previous month.

Many couples said they didn't have the energy for sex, while others said they found it boring.

A quarter of the men surveyed said they were "too tired" after work, while just under a fifth of women said intercourse was "too troublesome". A study by Durex found that the average couple has sex 45 times a year, less than half the global average of 103 times.

"It's a question of work-life balance," the association's head, Kunio Kitamura, told Reuters. "This is not something that the individual can tackle alone. The people who run companies need to do something about it."

Japan's birth rate, at 1.34 - the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime - is among the lowest in the world and falls well short of the 2.07 children needed to keep the population stable....

[avatar4321]

i seriously need to spend some time in Japan now:)