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.