My post about the one child policy was designed to show that there are no easy answers, and that things are not as black and white as some of you seem to think. Do I like the policy? No, of course not. Do I understand why it is in place? Yes. Do I agree with [...]

First, I’m not sure why the comments for the story from The Netherlands ended up under the blog post about the piece that HBO has bought the rights to, but that seems to have confused a few people. If you are confused, read the last two articles and realize that they are talking about two [...]

There is a show out called China’s Stolen Children. This show does not involve the IA community. It is about the black market within China. Babies stolen and sold for less than the equivalent of three hundred dollars. These babies never come anywhere close to a government run orphanage, they are kidnapped from their parents [...]

We are told that there was a TV program in the Netherlands last night about the Hunan scandal. Apparently a reporter has dug up information on it, and now there are fears the government could halt adoptions from China.
I have searched the worldwide news feeds and I can’t find anything at all about this.
My first [...]

There has been a lot of discussion about various news articles recently published about the one child policy, and for the most part I’ve stayed away from the subject.
There are two reasons I’ve stayed away, the first being that it’s a very complex issue and there is no way to say whether doing away with [...]

Let’s talk about measurements for just a bit. By definition, a measure needs to be something that is the same and does not move around. This is so when you are making comparisons you can be sure of the comparisons. Being told something is “10 hands high” doesn’t mean anything if you don’t know how [...]