I certainly agree with the writer of this article, making money in China is no longer a problem to many Mainland Chinese people; the real problem is to find another half.
The given situation is that the number of unmarried man increased, the following diagram illustrates the situation in the market for woman in China in matchmaking:
The given situation is that the number of unmarried man increased, the following diagram illustrates the situation in the market for woman in China in matchmaking:
Result: Woman are getting paid more price rise from p1 to p2.
The quantity of woman in matchmaking market increased, from Q1 to Q2.
Due to the content of this article is rather informative about the actual details about how the marriage market has evolved over time instead of having argumentative points, for the rest of the blog I shall make a link from this situation and use some of the statistics in the article to show how have the surplus of unmarried man and change in marriage values affect the market of Surrogate mothers in China.
Background information: Heavy traditional heavy family still exist in China, Chinese believe that they will bring an honor to their family if they give birth to a boy. In ancient China, it makes sense to marry the woman from matchmaking or the woman that gives birth to your child. But in the modern world, China has always practice this habit of hiring surrogate mother instead of matchmaking, because of modern views of life, you don’t marry the person you don’t love, and as mentioned in the diagram and in the article, matchmaking is a lot more expensive! You might question: isn’t it more trouble some to hire a surrogate mother due the one-child policy, it’s a huge risk that you invested your money is not going to be a boy! The answer is: you can easily escape the one-child policy by giving birth to your child in Hong Kong, some people kept hiring surrogate mothers until a boy is born. There are many consequences to this, which I will give you a link if you’re interested. But the point being is, rich man can avoid one-child policy easily.
Determinants of affecting the demand for surrogate mothers in China
- Chinese people’s incomes are increasing due to economic success: Having children is a luxurious game of theirs.
- Increasing in market size: For every 118 boys are born for every 100 girls, and it is predicted that China will have a surplus of 24 million unmarried man where the article mentioned that.
With these two determinants, we can draw out the market of surrogate mothers in China as the following:
The quantity of woman in matchmaking market increased, from Q1 to Q2.
Due to the content of this article is rather informative about the actual details about how the marriage market has evolved over time instead of having argumentative points, for the rest of the blog I shall make a link from this situation and use some of the statistics in the article to show how have the surplus of unmarried man and change in marriage values affect the market of Surrogate mothers in China.
Background information: Heavy traditional heavy family still exist in China, Chinese believe that they will bring an honor to their family if they give birth to a boy. In ancient China, it makes sense to marry the woman from matchmaking or the woman that gives birth to your child. But in the modern world, China has always practice this habit of hiring surrogate mother instead of matchmaking, because of modern views of life, you don’t marry the person you don’t love, and as mentioned in the diagram and in the article, matchmaking is a lot more expensive! You might question: isn’t it more trouble some to hire a surrogate mother due the one-child policy, it’s a huge risk that you invested your money is not going to be a boy! The answer is: you can easily escape the one-child policy by giving birth to your child in Hong Kong, some people kept hiring surrogate mothers until a boy is born. There are many consequences to this, which I will give you a link if you’re interested. But the point being is, rich man can avoid one-child policy easily.
Determinants of affecting the demand for surrogate mothers in China
- Chinese people’s incomes are increasing due to economic success: Having children is a luxurious game of theirs.
- Increasing in market size: For every 118 boys are born for every 100 girls, and it is predicted that China will have a surplus of 24 million unmarried man where the article mentioned that.
With these two determinants, we can draw out the market of surrogate mothers in China as the following:
As a result, Demand for surrogate mothers increased from D1 to D2, causing the price of surrogate mothers to rise, from p1 to p2.
How has this affected China?
-This phenomenon obviously benefit woman who works as a surrogate mother, they can now earn more than what they was earning- a larger market, higher income. On the other hand, Chinese men have to pay more- but they have money so they do not mind.
-This growing trend has destroyed modern people’s family value. They do not think realize the important of having a complete family.
-Population is not under control, there are many underground black markets for surrogate mothers, one-child policy is not enforced.
This is an actual trend that is happening in China, from last year.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/chinas-surrogate-mothers-might-see-rising-demand
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/national-news/2012/05/14/340945/Rich-Chinese.htm
How has this affected China?
-This phenomenon obviously benefit woman who works as a surrogate mother, they can now earn more than what they was earning- a larger market, higher income. On the other hand, Chinese men have to pay more- but they have money so they do not mind.
-This growing trend has destroyed modern people’s family value. They do not think realize the important of having a complete family.
-Population is not under control, there are many underground black markets for surrogate mothers, one-child policy is not enforced.
This is an actual trend that is happening in China, from last year.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/chinas-surrogate-mothers-might-see-rising-demand
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/national-news/2012/05/14/340945/Rich-Chinese.htm