China, Mary and the Location of Israel

Lochlan: Have you been to China?

Me: Nope.

Locke: I wouldn't want to go to China because you can't take any friends.

Me: What?

Locke: You know, only one person can visit China...

Me: Actually, what you mean is if you're Chinese, you can only have one kid per family.

Locke: Well, I'd take Mason if I could!

Me: Lochlan, our whole family could visit if we wanted to. That only applies to people who live in China having babies. They can only have one baby.

Lochlan (to Cambria): Yeah, if you have more than one baby, they make you give it up. Did you know that?

Cambria: Why?

Me: Because the government decided that the country was getting too big and they decided the best way to not have too many people in the country was by limiting each family in their country to one child only.

Cambria: That's sad.

Me: Yes, it is. But there are some families in China with more than one child. They just have to pay a lot of money to be able to keep him or her. I don't know how much, but I think it's around $30-40,000.

Lochlan: Well I think Mary wouldn't be able to afford it.

Me: She wasn't Chinese. She was from Israel. And she went on to have several more children.

Lochlan: Israel was destroyed right?

Me: No, it's still a country.

Lochlan: I'm pretty sure it's down by... Antarctica.

Me: No. it's not.

Lochlan: Well, where is it then!?

Me: In the middle east, kind of above Africa and next to the Mediterranean Sea.

Locke: Oh.