Source #25

1. What is your source? http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30472039.htm
2. Who is your source? By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
3. What are their credentials? I don't think they have amazing credentials because I have never heard of them beofore, but I guess that doesn't mean anything. They could be have good credentials.
4. What does your source say about your topic? China, which rejects criticism that it is doing too little to confront climate change, says that its population is now 1.3 billion against 1.6 billion if it had not imposed tough birth control measures in the late 1970s. The number of births avoided equals the entire population of the United States. Beijing says that fewer people means less demand for energy and lower emissions of heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe this source.
6. Why or why not? I believe this source for some of the same reasons as I believed the other sources I have found. It makes some sense, but I still dont agree with it.

Source #24

1. What is your source? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/18/revival-of-us-aid-stirs-unease-on-beijings-one-chi/
2. Who is your source? "The Washington Times"
3. What are their credentials? They have amazing credentials. They are a very well known source.
4. What does your source say about your topic?The Obama administration's decision to restore U.S. support for the United Nations Population Fund has reignited controversy over how China implements its one-child policy.
   The population fund, or UNFPA, has a presence in more than 140 countries.
   Its mission is to provide aid for family planning and promote women's rights worldwide, with the aim of assuring universal access to reproductive health services.
   "The main priority of the UNFPA is to prevent women from dying giving birth in Africa, South America and Asia. That is our priority number one," said Abubakar Dungus, a UNFPA spokesman.
   Mr. Obama's restoration of U.S. funding to the UNFPA marked the latest shift in a political seesaw that dates back to the Reagan administration and reflects the conflicting agendas of Republicans and Democrats.
   President Reagan cut off funding and President Clinton restored it. President George W. Bush again cut off funding, and one of Mr. Obama's first acts in office was to resume it.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe this source that I found.
6. Why or why not? I believe it because it is a very well known source, and I don't think that they would want to ruin their reputation on just one story, so I think that I can believe the things that were said.

Source #23

1. What is your source?http://www.pop.org/00000000356/chinas-one-child-policy
2. Who is your source? Population Research Institute...But it is a woman that is writing about her personal story, and experiences with this system in the past.
3. What are their credentials? Good credentials I guess you could say. It a university's website, so I think that you can trust it.
4. What does your source say about your topic? I have been a student of China's one-child policy since the late 1970s, when I became the first American social scientist to conduct a full-length study of a Chinese village. From 1979 to 1980, I lived in rural Guangdong. At the beginning of 1980, the Guangdong provincial government secretly ordered a 1 percent cap on population growth for the year. Local officials had complied the only way they could-by launching a family planning high tide soon thereafter to terminate as many pregnancies as possible.
   The rules governing this high tide were simple: No woman was to be allowed to bear a second child within four years of her first, and third children were strictly forbidden. Furthermore, all women who had borne three or more children by November 1, 1979, were to be sterilized.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe this source.
6. Why or why not? I believe it because this is someone's personal experience, and they would know about it first hand. This allows me to see directly into what is really occuring..or what did occur, and how it may have changed from then up untill now.

Source #22

1. What is your source?http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/28/china.population
2. Who is your source? Guardain.co.uk
3. What are their credentials? They are an official site, so I figure that their credentials are pretty decent.
4. What does your source say about your topic? The controversial rules, which restrict most urban families to a single child and rural households to two, were introduced in the 1970s in a bid to bring the country's vast population – the world's largest – from soaring out of control and outstripping limited resources.
   But today the vice-minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission said officials were carrying out detailed examination of the environmental, social and other implications of changing the law.
5. Do you believe your source? Yes I believe the things that this source was saying.
6. Why or why not? I believe what they were saying because I have learned about it from previous websites that I have found while researching.

Source #21

1. What is your source?http://www.mahalo.com/China_One_Child_Policy
2. Who is your source? Mahalo.com
3. What are their credentials? I don't know what their credentials are.
4. What does your source say about your topic?
   One child only in urban areas.
   One child in rural areas, exceptions if first is a girl or deformed.
   Possible second child should be spaced 3 or 4 years apart
   Boys preferred
   Male to Female Ratio: 117:100
5. Do you believe your source? Yes.
6. Why or why not? I agree with the things this source had to say about the topic. They provided me with a lot of beneficial information.

Source #20

1. What is your source? http://www.beaglebass.com/one_child.htm
2. Who is your source? By Chris Kadlec
3. What are their credentials? This was just a student that did similar research on the topic.
4. What does your source say about your topic? It was 1979 when Xiaoping first introduced the One-Child Policy to his nation. China's population had more than tripled since 1900 and the government was feeling constant pressure to bring down the numbers. However, there were problems with the idea of a One-Child Policy and China's government knew well of these problems. According to Chinese tradition, there must be a male child in order for the family to continue. Sometimes a family has four girls before a boy is finally given birth to. This was soon to change under Xiaoping's new policy that was enforced nationwide beginning in 1981.
5. Do you believe your source? Yes. I believe this source.
6. Why or why not? I believe it because the person writing this doesn't have any opinion of their own that he is trying to get across, he is just investigating the laws about it just like me.

Source #19

1. What is your source? http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/1998/ep39-7.htm
2. Who is your source? Carrie Gracie
3. What are their credentials? I dont know what her individual credentials are, but the website she is writing for, and works for has alright credentials I guess.
4. What does your source say about your topic? For many years China's 'One Child Policy' has rightly been seen as social engineering at it's most draconian. Forced abortions, sterilisations and hefty fines for overstepping the reproductive mark have received severe censure in the west. The fact that it has meant 300 million less mouths to feed in a country already bursting at the seams has received less publicity. With China now opening up economically and socially we investigate whether the one child policy can survive. In the cities the methods of control, like workplace committees authorising permits for babies and mandated contraception, are still firmly in place. In the bush control is more difficult and women still disappear up to the hills to give birth to over quota babies. They then try and smuggle them back into the family, claiming they are long lost nephews. But the ever vigilant family planning army are not fooled by this ruse and impose fines that are the equivalent of ten times the annual salary. It seems that even modern China is determined to continue with what they see as a very necessary and successful policy of population control.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe this source.
6. Why or why not? I believe it because there is no reason that would make me doubt any of it, so why would I? I think it is good information.