Abundance of crazy Asian parents somewhat explained?

News Today:
Man stabs 28 kids at a kindergarten in China

To quote from the article:
"A survey of mental health in four Chinese provinces jointly done by Chinese and U.S. doctors that was published in the Lancet in June concluded that China likely had about 173 million adults nationwide with mental health disorders and that most, 158 million, had never gotten any professional help for their problems."

[Warning: Grossly simplified calculations/estimations]
Okay, so if the current average in China is 1.7 kids per adult Chinese woman in their life time, and the total Chinese population is 1.3 billion, I'm estimating China's non-adult population is ~0.6 billion. How so? Cue the following:

X = China's kid population
1.3 - X = China's adult population
(1.3-X)/2 = China's female adult population (generous estimate)

So [(1.3-X)/2]*1.7 + (1.3-X) = 1.3 (total) -- > ~0.6 billion kids/0.7 billion Chinese adults.

So, out of 700 million Chinese adults, 158 million (or 22.5%) have untreated mental problems. So, that's approximately a 1 in 5 chance that any Chinese person you meet is unwell but won't admit to it. Also..refer to title of this entry.

Not to strictly infer China is the only country full of crazies (honor killings, anyone?), or that my math inference is actually accurate (I'm pretty positive that the adult population is much larger). I do feel like there is something to be said about the negative effects of the cultural stigmatizing of admitting you need help for issues that aren't physically apparent. On the flip side though, you could get a situation like over here where anxious mothers over-diagnose and medicate their kids into submission whenever they exhibit any form of normal behavior that's deemed too overwhelming to handle. Oh, and a lot of emos. Ugh.

Anyway, a lot of generalizing and negative implications can be made, so I'll just take the cop-out route and say I'm just glad I ended up with the family I have :).