The Amount Of Childbirths In 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long'

Controlling the Amount of Childbirths in “Supertoys Last All Summer Long”. In the short story of Brian Aldiss’s “Supertoys Last All Summer Long”, we get a glimpse of what it is like to have the government control the amount of childbirths. Throughout the story we witness how Monica’s struggles to have a relationship with her son David, but in the end of the story, we uncover that he isn’t a real boy when Henry ask his wife Monica “is David malfunctioning” (Aldiss 118). David is there to fulfil Monica’s emptiness that she has for not having any children because the government must approve it first. Even though the story is science fiction, having the government’s approval to conceive is actually what the Chinese’s people are going through today. In the journal article “Two, Three, Four and More Child Policy,” A.J Jowett explains that the Chinese government are trying to control the overpopulation even if that means

Monica and Henry had a unique way to determine when they can conceive, by winning the “week’s parenthood lottery” (Aldiss 118). The policy was basis for the women who lived in rural area compared to the women who lived in the urban part of town. If a female give birth that was from the rural area and did not get consent, she would be tormented to have an abortion or after a women had a three child, she would be strongly encouraged to be sterilized. As too women in urban areas, if they were in the same situation, the officials would just hope they get on some kind of birth control. From the author of the eBook Nie Jing-Bao “Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion,” Dr. Ying expresses that “a remedial measure when contraception fails abortion is a solution when there is no other alternative” (2). Henry lets us know that his part of town that his “apartment had no windows to the outside; no one wanted to see the overcrowded world” (117). So they created synthetic life