China’s experience with the unintended consequence of their one-family, one-child edict is quite amusing. We’ve struggled with some of that with Mr. B., of course, as probably any parent of an only child can attest. I took to calling him "your lordship" when he was a Terrible Two. But he’s improved.
Via the Seablogger.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
He. It figures.
There’s even some speculation (not at the link, however) that this problem may impede China’s ability to maintain its military.
that this problem may impede China’s ability to maintain its military.
I’ve been thinking just the opposite.
Notice it’s the little “Emperor” syndrome.
They’re having lots of boys, not so many girls. It’s going to be like 60/40 at some point.
So their population is getting younger and maler. That’s usually a prescription for angry young boys who the gov’t needs to do something with.
I’ve been figuring that within about 10-15 years at the most, they would either have much of Russia to the Urals or be at war with Russia.
Russia’s population is getting older, smaller and drunker.
If they’re spoiled little wussy boys we could get them all Internet, they could just play WOW and get their pr0n online and leave the rest of the world alone.
That would be cool.
Angry or not, spoiled kids usually find the military command’s indifference to their comforts off-putting. To say the least.
Yeah, but angry and horny with no outlet makes the government have to do something with you.
They’ll need to find someone for the the horny, need to get laid boys to fight besides each other, the gov’t and anybody they run across, as well occasional rapes because there’s only enough women for 2/3 of the men.
That’s 1/3 of hundreds of millions of men who can’t get laid.
So, probably close to a hundred million horny Chinese boys with no women. I’m sure they’ll only need to cull the worst, oh, couple million off the top to get rid of the troublemakers.
So now they either have their military or their prisons full of angry, horny men. They’re expensive either way, and Russia has lots of land full of resources they can only defend with an aging nukular arsenal that the Chinese can probably match these days. At least in working missiles if not in total missiles.
So they get in a war, wave the flag and scream about Russian (or other villain) imperialists!!!! The Chinese army isn’t so fastidious in not raping the women they run across the way ours is. So that’s a plus.
It’s been done a couple times before.