.105[,] and 106 boys for every 100 girls (Deane 19). Beginning in the 1980s, the sex percentage in China has been increasing constantly, and over the years, it developed from the average to 110 male children per 100 female children in 1993 9Deane 20). Gradually, the Chinese government has become apprehensive about this dramatic reduction in female children, and the government operated China News Service has made an announcement which indicated .at least 1 million boys will be unable to find wives in 20 years in the Guangxi province (Deane 20). Obviously, both the massive abortions of female fetuses, and the underground female children have both aggregated to this astonishing ratio (Deane 19-20).Finally, the newest product of the One-Child-Policy is .a generation of spoiled children (Deane 17). The Chinese attribute the cause of these spoiled children to .the 4-2-1 syndromefour doting grandparents, two overindulgent parents, all pinning their hopes, and ambitions on one child (Deane 18). Since most of the only-childs parents spent their childhood years in the confusion of the Cultural Revolution, and during that time, they have been deprived of all childhood fun, therefore they have decided to give everything that they have missed, to their only-child (Deane 18).In many Chinese families, the parents dont know the proper way to raise their children, and by simply spoiling their children, the new generation they have produced become sluggish, egotistical, disrespectful to their elderly, and ungrateful (Deane 17-18). For example, in order to feed his five-year-old granddaughter supper, a grandfather had to chase her around the house, as he .bark[ed] like a dog[,] or mew[ed] like a cat to entertain her, and if his performance was .authentic enough, she [would] reward him by accepting a mouthful of food (Deane 18). In another example, a mother was .Summoned by a shout, [to] get up .[,] and position a bottle under the covers for [her...
