Among The Hidden Summary

The story ‘Among the Hidden’ and the article ‘China Lifts One-Child Policy Amid Worries Overy Graying Population’ are similar because they both include a limit on how many children a person and/or family is allowed to have. In each article it mentions being able to have two children. However, in China people were legally only allowed to have one child. In the story ‘Among the Hidden’ if you had more than two children, any more children you had (third child, fourth child, etc.) they would be taken away and you would be punished for defying the government. Therefore, the two article are fairly similar.

In the story ‘Among the Hidden,’ it was stated that the government would punish Luke’s family because Luke existed and Luke would be taken away. The reason they would take Luke and punish his family is because Luke was an illegally born child. In the story it is stated that there are to two children per family maximum. If a third child were to be born, the child would be taken and the family would be punished for their defiance. The reason that there was a limit on how many children that a person/family could have was for population control. This is also something that both of the articles had in common; they both had child-birth limitations for population control.
Then, on Thursday, May 17th, the rule was officially demolished so that a couple may have two children at maximum. However, no one is allowed to go over the limit of two children per household. The reason that no one is allowed to go over the limit of two children per household is because the government in China wants population control. Population control is where the government controls how many people are born in their country, on average, each year. It is also a way to show dominance and