Resistance to the One-Child Family

Wasserstrom, Jeffrey Ν.

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“…Yet overall, urban families are regarded by scholars as having made the "demographic shift" in which unlimited childbearing no longer improves chances for survival and upward mobility. In the countryside, by contrast, the one-child policy collided with the re-emergence of the household as a fundamental unit of production; the dismantling of rudimentary collective welfare guarantees; the emergence of peasant households wealthy enough to pay hefty fines for excess births; and a general weakening of state control over peasant mobility, income, activities, and its own local branches (Wasserstrom 1984;Potter 1985;Croll 1985c;Davin 1985;Davis-Friedmann 1985;Dalsimer and Nisonoff 1987;Greenhalgh 1990Greenhalgh , 1993Potter and Potter 1990; T. White 2003). Since virilocality continued to be the dominant marriage pattern through collectivization and decollectivization, farming families had immediate practical reasons to value sons over daughters, who would leave the family and the community at marriage (Robinson 1985).…”

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“…Other peasant reactions to the policy included refusal to pay fines, bribery of officials, and refusal to contracept, generally by removing IUDs (Wasserstrom 1984;Bianco and Hua 1988; Davin 1990;Greenhalgh 1993Greenhalgh , 1994Greenhalgh and Li 1995;Bossen 2002). They also included formal and informal adopting out of girls, or what Greenhalgh and her colleagues call "the feminization of adoption" (Greenhalgh 1994;Greenhalgh, Zhu, and Li 1994; K. Johnson 2004), abandonment (K. Johnson 1993 K. Johnson, Huang, and Wang 1998), and female infanticide or selective neglect (Banister 1987;Hom 1992;Croll 1994).…”

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“…In rural areas, enforcement initially fell to the women's team leaders, although party and local government leaders increasingly participated in birth planning committees, a sign of the importance that the state attached to this campaign (Davin 1985). In the early years of the one-child policy, some cadres responsible for birth planning were targets of community retaliation (Wasserstrom 1984;Banister 1987;Bianco and Hua 1988;Greenhalgh and Winckler 2005). Women fled their local areas to conceal pregnancies, and families as well as local officials underreported births (Banister 1987;Greenhalgh 1994; T. White 2003).…”

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“…Women fled their local areas to conceal pregnancies, and families as well as local officials underreported births (Banister 1987;Greenhalgh 1994; T. White 2003). Women were also subjected to spousal and family abuse for giving birth to girl children (Wasserstrom 1984;Croll 1985c;Tien 1985;Anagnost 1988;Honig and Hershatter 1988;Bianco and Hua 1988; Gilmartin 1990), leading to a belated but energetic state attempt to educate rural masses both about who carries the Y chromosome and about the legal rights of women and children (Wasserstrom 1984;Croll, Davin, and Kane 1985;Tien 1985;Anagnost 1988;Honig and Hershatter 1988;Croll 1994Croll , 1995.Other peasant reactions to the policy included refusal to pay fines, bribery of officials, and refusal to contracept, generally by removing IUDs (Wasserstrom 1984;Bianco and Hua 1988; Davin 1990;Greenhalgh 1993Greenhalgh , 1994Greenhalgh and Li 1995;Bossen 2002). They also included formal and informal adopting out of girls, or what Greenhalgh and her colleagues call "the feminization of adoption" (Greenhalgh 1994;Greenhalgh, Zhu, and Li 1994; K. Johnson 2004), abandonment (K. Johnson 1993 K. Johnson, Huang, and Wang 1998), and female infanticide or selective neglect (Banister 1987;Hom 1992;Croll 1994).…”

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Resistance to the One-Child Family

Cited by 25 publications

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