Evolution and childbirth - Why is it so painful?
There are actually a number of differences between newborn humans, and newborns of other species, which are the result of our evolutionary history. Humans are born premature, when compared to most other creatures. A newborn foal is usually up and walking around minutes after its born. It takes us months. And, of course, we're completely dependent on a parent for years of our early life. Of course there's the whole soft skull thing, which allows the child to pass through the birth canal. But really, to what advantage, is a completely pain free child birth? What are the negative side effects? Evolution is not a process that gets everything perfect, to your standards, but just enough that the organism survives, and is able to reproduce.
What happens when a family disobeys the "one child policy" in China?
Technically, "one child policy" is not right, the official name of that policy is "family planning".Article 18 of the Law of Population and Family Planning of PRC:The state stablizes the current population policy, late marriages and late childbirth are encourged, one child for one couple is advocated. Eligible couples can ask for a second child. Concrete measures should be prescribed by the People's Congress or its Standing Committee of each province.Ethnic minorities should do family planning also, concrete measures should be prescribed by the People's Congress or its Standing Committee of each province.中华人民共和国人口与计划生育法 第十八条国家稳定现行��育政策，鼓励公民晚婚晚育，提倡一对夫妻生育一个子女；符合法律、法规规定条件的，可以要求安排生育第二个子女。具体办法由省、自治区、直辖市人民代表大会或者其常务委员会规定。少数民族也要实行计划生育，具体办法由省、自治区、直辖市人民代表大会或者其常务委员会规定。That means most couples can only give birth to one child, but if they're rural residence, ethnic minority, or one of the couple is a "one-child", they could have the chance to apply for having more kids.Now let's talk about what happens when a family disobeys the "family planning policy" in China.In urban areas, if a second child has been born, his parents will face a choice: hand in a fine which called "social upbringing fee"（社会抚养费）, or the child won't get a household register(户口).Social upbringing fee usually equals 3 to 9 times as much as the average annual income. And a child without household register can not get social insurance or go to school.If a civil servant disobeys the "family planning policy", he or she will get punished, from record of a major demerit to discharge.In addition, if no one breaks "family planning policy" in an orgnization, every employee gets an annual family planning bonus(roughly equal two week salary).In rural areas, social insurance system nearly did not exsit for quite a long time(improving now, but still not good), so a household register was not worthy to buy by handing in "social upbringing fee".If the family planning officials find a rural woman is pregnant and going to give birth to a "child out of plan", they will try to get to her home and give her a forced abortion.So some rural families move to somewhere far from their hometown to get rid of the family planning officials, and have a lot of children.If a rural civil servant disobeys the "family planning policy", he or she still will get punished, from record of a major demerit to discharge.
Should the man pay for the ABORTION?
You mean of the woman he impregnated? I think it'd be fair to expect him to pay half. She didn't get herself pregnant. Whether this was a one-night-stand, a long-term relationship or a married couple; whether this was unprotected sex or birth control/condom failure; medically necessary or needed for other reasons, both partners are equally responsible for the pregnancy occurring and both should pitch in to fix it. I mean... if it's such a burden to pay for an abortion (usually $200-$500), how in the h*ll would he/she/they expect to pay for pregnancy and childbirth(easily $10 000), let alone the cost of raising a child? Even if you give it up for adoption, being pregnant is hideously expensive. Abortion is cheaper by far.
When you get delivery pizza, can you pay with a credit card?
I had my friend just order us a pizza with my phone, and she had my credit card to pay it with, but when she got off the phone she told me they never asked for the credit card number. Should I call them back and give them my credit card number, or do they even take credit cards at all??