One Child Policy Homeschool

August 20, 2008 - Twins

Jenn once asked a great question about twins. How does China handle twins in a one child policy system? Twins are a very fortunate event and one of the few loopholes around the one child rule.



Did you know that Africans have the greatest rate of twins? And Asians have the least? So for a Chinese family in a one child policy system to have a set of twins is an amazing and rare blessing! And Chinese people see it that way as well. She is very, very fortunate mother to be blessed with twins on her one and only chance at childbearing!


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August 21, 2008 - Blessed Indeed!

Posted by Della

I can't imagine life without my three little ones! I surely never imagined I'd have three, but now can not even think of having just one of them. Beautiful kids!

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August 21, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by kimalita

Praise the Lord the gov't doesnt make them get rid of one.
Those babies are incredibly cute!

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August 21, 2008 - What about non-Chinese citizens...

Posted by Anonymous

Can women who are not citizens of China have more than one child? If so, do most abide by the one child policy anyway b/c of the crowded conditions? Just curious.
Stacy :-)

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August 22, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

I just found your blog through "Little Cabin in the Woods" and wanted to stop by and say Hi :o) We are also a homeschooling family of one and are dreaming of one day picking up our baby girl from China....however with the increasing wait we still have a rather long way to go.

The twins are adorable! What a blessing!

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August 22, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

Oops, those above ramblings are from me :o)

M~
http://faithhopeandlove-fhl.blogspot.com/

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August 22, 2008 - Stacy's question

Posted by Jimmie

No, the one child policy only applies to Chinese citizens. Foreigners living in China can have as many children as they want. And no, I'd say that most foreigners do not plan their family size because of it. I've never heard of people not having children because it's "crowded." Usually it's more of a financial consideration.

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August 22, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Keri

Blessed indeed!

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August 22, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

Interesting, my son was asking this, I will pass this along.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, also. It is nice to "meet" you.
~Erin

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August 23, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by amtell

The thing I find strange about the one child policy is that there is a whole nation that cannot comprehend the concept of extended family- no brothers and sisters, no aunts and uncles, no cousins. That would be very strange, I think.

Those little girls are also blessed.

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August 24, 2008 - Twins

Posted by Anonymous

As a twin, I always love to read about and see pictures of other twins. Also, the children policy in China continues to fascinate me.

http://www.urbanschoolteacherblog.blogspot.com

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August 29, 2008 - twins..

Posted by Tinab

i never even thought of china's policy and what to do about twins. i have seven children and cannot imagine life without even one of them, much less 6. thanks for your blog. :)

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August 30, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

Those babies are so sweet. I just wanna hug 'em.

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September 6, 2008 - What a blessing

Posted by Anonymous

That truely is a blessing! When we were adopting our children from Asia we requested twins and we were told that it was VERY, VERY rare for asians to have twins!

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September 6, 2008 - previous post

Posted by Anonymous

Sorry the previous post was from me and I didn't realize I was anonymous. Thanks for posting on my blog http://www.wedemeyerfamily.blogspot.com/

I am going to keep you in my favs because we are praying about adopting a Chinese child right now.

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September 25, 2008 - Hi

Posted by Junosmom

Hi Jimmie! I've not been by in awhile because when I changed computers, I lost my bookmarks. Somehow, I found you again.

Since I last read your blog, I've made the aquaintance of two Chinese families that live near me. Of one family, they have two sons, so I wonder if they ever plan to return to China, as they are now over their "limit". The other family has but one son.

I also know of some people that are planning to move to China soon. They say that in the area to which they are moving, there is no limit to the number of children because the people are an ethnic minority and are exempt. I forget the tribe or group to which they belong.

I'll check back again soon, but for now, I'm off to bed.

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