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Article Evaluation
The introduction to the US Census Bureau article is fact based and at no point does it give an opinion or biased look on the Census Bureau. Relevant history is given about how the Census is conducted every ten years and is kept short and direct. Several citations are given when more than one source was used for one piece of information. Not all sections of an article have to be well-thought out pieces of written work, sometimes a section is best represented with a list of information. The US Census Bureau article not only talks about how the Census works, but it also mentions the different technologies used to conduct a census and it's changes over time. The article manages history of the census in a short straight-to-the-point manner whenever history is presented, but most of the article talks about the current operations of the census.

The article also provides a list of surveys that have been conducted over the decades, one of the surveys conducted is the National Crime Victimization Survey. This article doesn't have as much information as the US Census Bureau article did, but it is still fact based. The article mentions how the NCVS is used as a way to not only gather information on unreported crimes, but it is also a good way to find out how the general population feels toward police or crime. They present this information without giving a personal opinion on police themselves. Even though this article is much shorter, it still presents facts and provides several sources for the information given. Just like the US Census Bureau, th NCVS article avoids biased opinions and only presents the facts.  Very nice evaluation of the article - Prof Hammad 

Article
The article that I chose to work on is Missing women of China. This article is about how the population in China has been falling for several years and the consequences of not having enough women in the population. Not only does China have less women, but the surviving women are largely discriminated. One thing that the article is missing is information about the unregistered daughters. Do families keep the daughters or do they abandon them? Do those girls live to become women? Another consequence of less women that the article doesn't talk about is the falling fertility rate. ''' I like these additions, but what about sources? - Prof H'''

Consequences of the phenomenon
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Fertility rate
In 1965, fourteen years before the one-child policy was implemented, China's fertility rate was 6.39 births per women, the highest it has ever been. In 1979, the fertility rate dropped to 2.75 births per women and quickly continued to fall in the years to come. Initially, China wanted to get to replacement level fertility, but the fertility rate continued to fall and is now at 1.6 births per women. The low fertility rate causes problems for the development of the country and China has started to change their policies in order to get the fertility rate up to replacement level. In 2015, the Chinese government decided to change the one-child policy to the two-child policy. The one-child policy comes with a long history of son preference and this has damaged the men to women population in China leaving millions of men unable to find a bride and start a family. Scholars and journalists from outside of China have argued that simply dropping the one-child policy will help raise the number of girls born into China and thus raise the fertility rate. But even with the more relaxed two-child policy, more couples are opting to remain a single-child household due to expensive childcare, also working women are now more hesitant to leave their careers to raise a family.

Wifeless men
China's traditional preference for sons over daughters has left millions of men competing over a limited number of brides, a phenomenon known as the marriage squeeze. On occasion, families would adopt female infants as a way to secure a future bride for their sons. These girls would be raised by the adoptive families to care and serve their future families and other aspects of their lives, such as education, would not be made a priority.  This is an excellent start in adding to this article - Prof H 

''' Now that I can see your references, your article holds more merit. I think it would be a good idea to talk about that people value boys over girls in traditional Chinese culture and how the one-child-policy affected the male/female ratio. What are the exceptions to the one child policy? What are the consequences of not registering baby girls? Are there any laws protecting female babies? - Shao Yang 4/2/18 '''