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.

Source #18

1. What is your source?http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china/article3451974.ece
2. Who is your source?
3. What are their credentials?
4. What does your source say about your topic?
5. Do you believe your source?
6. Why or why not?

Source #17

1. What is your source?http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20060620_one_child_policy_in_china.htm
2. Who is your source? Pete is the writer of the posts on the website.
3. What are their credentials? They don't really have any credentials. They are just people's discussions about problems dealing with the law and how it will affect future success or not.
4. What does your source say about your topic? Anyway, he said something that shocked me quite a bit. Many of us have been planning investment in China for a while, but this consultant-- who used to be a Chinese investor himself-- is now advising all of us to avoid investing in China and to focus instead on Latin America, India and Vietnam. The reason for his advice, he stated, is China's One Child Policy-- he said China should get rid of it immediately, within maybe two years, or the investment consultants in the USA are going to recommend that US companies pull all their money out of China.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe what was said in this souce is important.
6. Why or why not? I think that it is something we need to think about, or the Chinese people do, because it affects everyone, and is a huge thing.

Source #16

1. What is your source? http://www.thetakeaway.org/stories/2009/jan/16/chinas-one-child-policy-gets-once-over/
2. Who is your source? By Todd Zwillich, Adaora Udoji
3. What are their credentials? Well they are just a talk show. There was a specialist that i think was talking on there too. He was being interviewed.
4. What does your source say about your topic?China's family planning commission has released a survey saying that 70% of Chinese women wish they could have two babies or more partially because they worry that an only child is likely to become lonely or spoiled. The commission just announced the survey, but there is a twist, it was conducted in 2006, but is only being released now. For more on the survey and what it might mean for China's one-child policy, we're joined by Quentin Sommerville, the BBC's Beijing Correspondent.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe this source.
6. Why or why not? It is one of my better sources that I have found so far. :)

Source #15

1. What is your source? http://www.huliq.com/23273/violent-protests-over-chinas-one-child-policy-resume
2. Who is your source? "Huliq News"
3. What are their credentials? Their credentials aren't known to me.
4. What does your source say about your topic?
   Resentment toward China's one-child policy has led to a second round of violent protests in southwestern China's Guangxi Province. Joseph Popiolkowski reports from Hong Kong that peasants there are seeking refunds of fines imposed on them for having more children than allowed. China's state-run media reported another wave of social unrest in Guangxi, as the central government increased pressure on local officials to maintain population control levels.Protests over large fines imposed for violating the one-child policy erupted in the region two weeks ago. Official reports say several hundred rural residents rioted again Tuesday, setting fire to furniture and government vehicles at a family planning office. The reports say the protesters were seeking refunds for the fines, which can top $1,300.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe my source.
6. Why or why not? I believe it beacuase it is understandable where the people would grow angry from. I would most likely be one of thos protestors if the government I lived in practiced the same system.

Source #14

1. What is your source? http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL3047203920070830
2. Who is your source? By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
3. What are their credentials? No good credentials needed. They are all opinions and views on the subject.
4. What does your source say about your topic? But delegates at U.N. climate change talks in Vienna said on Thursday birth control is unlikely to find favor as a major policy theme, partly because of opposition by the Catholic Church and some developing nations trying to increase their population.
   Some scientists say that birth control measures far less draconian than China's are wrongly overlooked in the fight against climate change, when the world population is projected to soar to about 9 billion by 2050 from 6.6 billion now.
   "Population is clearly an important factor," said Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, at U.N. talks trying to plan a new deal to combat climate change after 2012.
5. Do you believe your source? Yes. I believe it.
6. Why or why not? I believe it, but I do not agree with it. I feel like we should have the freedom to as many children as we can care for safely.

Source #13

1. What is your source? http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland/Anger-as-moderator-says-Chinas.4652331.jp
2. Who is your source? "Scotland on Sunday" ...(By Kate Foster)
3. What are their credentials? I don't know their credentials. They seem like a newspaper for Scotland though.
4. What does your source say about your topic? The Right Reverend David Lunan, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said the fact that the country had enforced the controversial rules limiting couples to having one child meant it had limited its damage to the planet.The single child policy was introduced in 1979 to try to stop the population from growing too rapidly.Human rights campaigners and religious groups oppose the policy amid concerns about abortion and female infanticide.
5. Do you believe your source? I do beliebe this source that he said this.
6. Why or why not? I do beliene them, about what the man said, but I don't agree with that man at all! I believe in multiplting and replenishing the Earth...unlike he said the opposite..

Source #12

1. What is your source? http://www.spuc.org.uk/lobbying/china/
2. Who is your source? The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
3. What are their credentials? They are an official organization, but they aren't a government's website or anything like that.
4. What does your source say about your topic?Despite over three decades of reports in the West of the crimes of the one-child policy, very little is being done by governments and human rights organisations about the policy. This is partly because the policy's victims are mainly the unborn, whom the Western world largely neglect, but also partly because many Western governments and wealthy population control agencies support the policy in various ways. Most of the opposition to the policy has come from pro-life organisations like SPUC.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe this source, but I also think that they are coming from one view point, and are only stating how they feel. They don't have any opinions of those who are against a change for it.
6. Why or why not? I explained this in the previous question.

Source #11

1. What is your source?http://dawnmanuel.blogspot.com/2008/04/chinas-one-child-law.html
2. Who is your source? Dawn Manuel
3. What are their credentials? He or she doesn't really have any credentials.
4. What does your source say about your topic? That depending on the jobs of the parents, they can choos whether they want to keep their little baby girl. This would be acceptable in most situations with people with the job of doing farm work.
5. Do you believe your source? Yes, and no.
6. Why or why not? Yes I do because some of the things I saw in this blog, I have previously read about, but no because anyone can write anything in a blog that they want to.

Source #10

1. What is your source?http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/skirting_chinas_onechild_law.php
2. Who is your source? "Gelf Magazine"
3. What are their credentials? I don't know what their credentials are.
4. What does your source say about your topic?China
   There are many ethical, legal, and cultural issues with China's family-planning laws. But one of the biggest practical problems for China is how differently the laws impact the rich and the poor. The current system calls for a monetary fine for every child past the allotted quota (which is basically one child per family, though there are exceptions). Poorer families can't afford the fine, but wealthy people and celebrities in particular have flouted the law and agreed to pay the fee, which is to them a minor cost. According to state officials, this leads the rich and famous to consider themselves as "special citizens" and sets a bad example for the rest. As a response, authorities in Shaanxi Province have introduced new laws to keep the wealthy in line. According to China Daily, the new measure simultaneously increases benefits for poor families abiding by the quota and bars violators of the family-planning law from receiving any honorary titles or awards. State workers who violate the policy may lose their jobs and be dismissed from the party.
5. Do you believe your source? Yes. I do believe this source.
6. Why or why not? I believe it because it is information that I have heard about from other websites, so I'm familiar with the ideas.

Source #9

1. What is your source?http://bigonsandbank.com/blog/chinas-one-child-law-leading-to-huge-gender-imbalances-2/
2. Who is your source? "Big On Sand Bank"
3. What are their credentials? I don't know what their credentials are.
4. What does your source say about your topic?China is facing a huge gender ratio imbalance because the country’s one-child law has led parents to seek sex selective abortions, according to new research.
   China’s government imposes a one-child restriction on parents in an effort to control the country’s population, but a cultural preference for sons and cheap access to ultrasound scans has led to many terminating pregnancies if they are expecting a daughter, despite sex selective terminations being illegal in the country.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe the things that the source is saying.
6. Why or why not? The things being said are merely predictions of what will come from the laws that are now in place, and it all makes sense to me, so I don't disagree at all.

Source #8

1. What is your source? http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/10/china.onechild/index.html
2. Who is your source? CNN
3. What are their credentials? CNN has really good credentials. They are a major company.
4. What does your source say about your topic? China will maintain its one-child policy for at least another decade, the country's family planning minister said in an interview published Monday.The policy, begun in the 1970s, prohibits most couples from bearing more than one child.
   Nearly 200 million Chinese will enter child-bearing age in the next 10 years, Minister Zhang Weiqing told the China Daily newspaper. He said abandoning the policy during this period would cause "serious problems and add extra pressure on social and economic development."
   "After the new birth peak ends, we may adjust the policy if there is a need," he said.
   China's population, which now stands at about 1.3 billion, is growing at the rate of 0.6 percent and is expected to peak around 1.6 billion by 2050, according to the U.S. State Department.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe this source.
6. Why or why not? They have the credentials that I need to trust them.

Source #7

1. What is your source?http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/kane98/kanep2/chinas1kid/dcva2.html
2. Who is your source? Daniela & Valerie
3. What are their credentials? They don't really have any credentials.
4. What does your source say about your topic? The population of 65 years old was only 66 million in 1990, and now is expected to grow 90 million by 2000, and 167 million by 2020.The "one-child" policy is not a law, as most people think it is, "it is a policy enforced by the system of punishments" (www.cen.uci.edu~m-ulrich/eal/paper.html). Though there is a Marriage Law since 1980, insisting the practice of family planning, there is not one on the amount of children one family can have. The marriage Law encourages late marriages, late childbirths, one child per couple, and it helps space the time between children being born. Having one child is really encouraged, more in the urban areas than in the countryside. Women who are pregnant who have been authorized by the government, get birth coupons entitling them to have a child. Women who don't have their births authorized risk being punished by the government. Results for following the policy can include things like monthly financial rewards, extended maternity leave, increases land allocation, preferential treatment in education, housing and employment (www.cen.uic.edu/~m-ulrich/ealc/paper.html)
5. Do you believe your source? No. I don't believe this source
6. Why or why not? They are going against everything else I have been researching, and it's not like they are an official company or anything. Maybe if I read these exact same things from another site, or numerous sites, I would be more likely to believe it.

Source #6

1. What is your source?http://books.google.com/books?id=Yx8AC_d3lWgC&pg=PA391&lpg=PA391&dq=chinese+laws+for+having+children&source=bl&ots=iTPa_JRchZ&sig=maCaTotZxfj7Xh7HYGAkjAb4TH0&hl=en&ei=2OcRSsP_JYqUMvjH3YAN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10
2. Who is your source? Boy Lafayette De Mente
3. What are their credentials? He wrote an entire book about the Chinese culture etc.
4. What does your source say about your topic? It talks about the laws of reducind the children being born, and some names of the rulers, and what they thought. It also contains some years and dates of things that happened during this movement.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe this source, yes.
6. Why or why not? I do because I think this person sounds like they have been doing their research, and has spent plenty of hours making it correct.

Source #5

1. What is your source?http://www.enghunan.gov.cn/Special_Columns/Adoption_Donation/Adoption/Law_Policies/200809/t20080916_116214.htm
2. Who is your source? It is an official Chinese law website. It's not even from foreign places, (foreign to them...like the U.S.)
3. What are their credentials? Good credentials.
4. What does your source say about your topic? Measures for Registration of Adoption of Children by Foreigners in the People's Republic of China
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe the source.
6. Why or why not? This source in particular has good credentials.

Source #4

1. What is your source? http://posts.people.com.cn/data/laws/detail.php?id=429
2. Who is your source? "People's Daily Online"
3. What are their credentials? I have never heard of them before, so I don't know how reliable they are.
4. What does your source say about your topic? It discusses the laws that pertain to adopting children, and what the circunstances must be.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe my source.
6. Why or why not? I believe them because it would be more difficult to make all of those rules up then it would be for one of their staff members to just look up.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chinese+laws+for+having+children&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&safe=active

Source #3

1. What is your source? http://www.china.org.cn/english/2002/Oct/46138.htm
2. Who is your source? A news channel's website.
3. What are their credentials? News channels wouldn't let some random false facts be put up on their website, because they wouldn't be reliable anymore, and would ruin the reputation, so they have pretty good credentials.
4. What does your source say about your topic? Although the Population and Family Planning Law was formally implemented on September 1, family planning has actually been practiced as a basic policy of the nation for more than 20 years, proving highly effective. What was the central government’s original intention in creating such a law?
   Zhao: Family planning affects all households since each person and each family must contend with the issue. Such a broad action needs a law to standardize its implementation.
5. Do you believe your source? Yes. I do believe this source.
6. Why or why not? I believe it because it is a major news channel, and they can usually be trusted.

Source #2

1. What is your source? http://www.loc.gov/law/help/child-rights/china.php
2. Who is your source? An official website.
3. What are their credentials? They are trustworthy because they are a government website.
4. What does your source say about your topic? The People’s Republic of China (PRC)[1] declares that it protects a wide range of children’s rights through domestic legislation and by ratifying and joining the relevant international treaties. The PRC Constitution provides for the state protection of children, and prohibits maltreatment of children.[
5. Do you believe your source? Yes. I do believe my source.
6. Why or why not? They are facts. Not opinions. They talk about the laws that pertain to the children, they don't speak of if they are being enforced or not, so it is all factual information.

Source #1

1. What website is your source from? http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/onechild.htm
2. Who is your source?By Matt Rosenberg, About.com
3. What are their credentials? They have pretty good credentials.
4. What does your source say about your topic? China has proclaimed that it will continue its one child policy, which limits couples to having one child, through the 2006-2010 five year planning period. China's one child policy was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to limit communist China's population growth. It is not an all-encompassing rule because it has always been restricted to ethnic Han Chinese living in urban areas.The result of such Draconian family planning has resulted in the disparate ratio of 114 males for every 100 females among babies from birth through children four years of age.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe this source.
6. Why or why not? I believe it because it logically makes sense. Males are more wanted as children because they can make more money, and are more successful in buisness.