Conrad: The idea of taking the necessary steps to insure having a tall child is practicing individual eugenics, while attempting to create a society of tall people is the practice of population eugenics (Site 4). One sounds much more dangerous than the other, but, many anti-eugenics supporters contend, these two forms of eugenics are too similar to allow one and forbid the other. 

In China, policies exist which restrict individual couples to having a single child.  This, in addition to the tendency of the Chinese favoring boys over girls, has led many couples to make sure that their child will be a boy.  No laws exist to favor the male over the female, but the attitudes of the Chinese combined with a law limiting couples to one child has produced a monumental slide in the gender composition in favor of men (Site 4).

 

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