One reason that the one-child policy was an excellent idea is that the population was decreasing. Document A shows a steady population decline from 1980-2010 this will continue until 2030. Also, the policy has prevented a humongous birth rate and leaves more food and resources for the population (Document E). This evidence supports the claim that the one-child policy is helping China’s…
Put yourself in other people’s shoes. The year is 1980. You just had your 2nd child. You are so excited to see your daughter/son go to school for the very first time, but wait. Everyone is talking about something called “China’s One Child Policy”. You are confused until you find out what it means. The 2nd child that you just had, can’t receive barely any benefits. According to (Document E), “The Costs and who is not allowed to enroll in school or to access the healthcare system.”. Isn’t that just terrible? If your child has something life-threatening wrong with he/she, he/she cannot treat it because of them being the 2nd child. Your child could die because of this policy. Just think about that.…
Most people want to have more than one child,well that doesn't happen in China.When Mao Zedong took power in 1949 he encouraged the people of China to have more children.Then in 1980 he enforced the one child policy due to a severe overpopulation (BGE).The one child policy was a bad idea for three reasons,it was unnecessary,it hurts the elderly and retirees, and it has a negative impact on women.…
Could you imagine your leader making up rules about your family? It seems impossible and inhumane, but this is exactly what they are doing in China. China implemented a “one child policy” in the late 1970s in response to a growing crisis created by rapidly exploding population growth (Piper). Essentially the one child policy is not a law but enforced with punishments. This policy allows families to only have one child. Of course in every policy comes something good and something bad.…
Ever wonder if the one-child policy worked out in china? China's population was increasing too fast, almost to one billion. The communist party feared china's population and created a policy named The One-Child Policy that started in 1980. Now we discuss if this policy was a good idea for china or not. More evidence has been found in the documents about this policy not being a great idea afterall. The population still has been growing because of exceptions. Female babies have been killed because at the time a male babies were wanted more than a female baby. Also, some children without a sibling show social issues with parents. More evidence will be stated on why the One-Child policy was not effective.…
How exactly does this “One Child Law” control the Chinese population? Forced abortions, yep it’s real a families very own worst nightmare, and it’s only one of the few ways China enforces control on their people. Wait, wait, wait, isn’t abortion illegal? No, it is very legal to get an abortion up to the third trimester in China, since 1953 in fact. One such instance of China’s government officials forcing abortions upon families is the story of Pan Chunyan. In Beijing while grocery shopping, she was grabbed, still eight months pregnant with her third child, by two men who were working for a local official, and locked her up with two other women. Four days later they forced her to put her thumbprint on a document stating that she had agreed to an abortion, a nurse then came in and injected a drug into her. “After I got the shot, all the thugs disappeared. My family was with me again. I cried and hoped that my baby would survive.” Ms. Pan, 31, told a reporter over a telephone interview, from her home in Fujian. However hours after her labor, the baby was born dead on April, 8, “black and blue all over,” Ms. Pan said. Another way to ensure that this law was held to its fullest, were the incentives the Chinese government bestowed upon the couples and families who complied with the law. The incentives varied from higher wages, better…
In today’s society, China’s population was put into consideration by their government. They decided that each couple were to have only one child each. This was established as the one-child policy. Both situations were initiated to maintain their population. Also, it is stated that some families did not obey this regulation and had more than one child.…
Imagine a world where one can’t just simply go to the supermarket because there is not enough food. A world where pollution is a daily reality, the air too thick to even breath and the water virtually undrinkable. A place you can no longer buy consumer goods because there isn’t enough materials to make them. This could become a reality, but preventing it has always been on the minds of the Chinese government. War and epidemics had struck China for years, but after the founding of the People's Republic of China, sanitation and medicine improved and prompted rapid population growth. This combined with the movement created by Mao Zedong, China’s previous communist leader, led to rapid population growth that gave China’s monumental population. This monumental mistake took its toll in the food supply when Mao emphasized steel production over farming, food supply slipped behind population growth; by 1962 a massive famine had caused some 30 million deaths. After the population leveled off, the government continued the camping to reduce China’s population. In 1979 the Chinese government introduced a policy requiring couples from China's ethnic Han majority to have only one child. Depending on where they lived parents can be fined thousand of dollars for having an extra child without a permit and can be forced to abort the child and then be sterilized. With all this in mind I not only believe that the one child policy with some adjustments can be a good solution to the overpopulation and issues related to it but also it is a necessary policy. With changes to the policy will greatly improve China’s people living environment and standards. Without this policy we can face serious issues concerning food supplies, depletion of natural resources at a rapid rate, poverty,spreading of diseases due to lack of proper medical care, overcrowded cities that can lead to heavy pollution, inadequate housing, lower life expectancy and higher death rates,…
“Molly Zhang, a 31-year-old account manager in the lighting industry, just had her second son. Now she has to pay a fine likely to total 30,000 yuan ($4,760), roughly equal to her annual salary, for violating China's one-child policy.” This is the harsh reality of people in china that are choosing to have more children without falling into the criteria China’s government has set to allow having more children. Such as ethnic minorities, who have always been able to have more than one child. For example in the event that a farming family has a girl for their first child, they are permitted to have a second child. These inconsistencies in the policy is why many have been calling for its abolishment from the beginning. (Roberts,…
China began its one child policy in 1979 by the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. The policy’s purpose was to monitor and limit the booming population’s growth. This policy began as a “temporary measure,” that once stabilization took place, the policy would ease up on its strictness and its tight grip on the people. And yet still today parts of China continue this policy. This policy allows only one child per couple. Law enforcers made sure that women who attempted a second pregnancy were fined, punished, and pressured to abort and then sterilize. The lesser population could very well mean that there are more resources left for those alive, but less workers to produce these products in the long run. Although the standard of living would increase because of a lesser population, the restrictions are strict, inhumane, cruel, unnecessary, unlawful, and other nations should not adopt this technique.…
A policy in China that is infamously and famously known is The One Child Policy. The One Child Policy is a law in China that there can only be one child per family. The One Child Policy made a big impact on the lives of people in China and many people believed that it is very practical. I personally think that the One Child Policy is not practical and that it is a very bad thing. Although there are some pros to it, I think it is a bad law in China. The One Child Policy destroys the balance between the gender ratios, there are more elders which mean less youth to work, and there was an increase in child abortion.…
In the early 1900 's, China 's population was about 420 million. In the past century years, it had grown to 1.2 billion, an increase of almost 800 million people in a 100 years. (Hays) Having this many people in one area means that there is a lot of people to feed, clothe, and house. The population has put a large amount of tension on its limited resources. A quarter of China’s land is either desert, or infertile land, therefore no crops can be grown on the land. Also, it means that people won 't want to live on it because they wouldn’t be able to support themselves due to the poor soil. This issue leads to tremendous amounts of population density in the cities. The Chinese government realized that something had to be put in place, otherwise they would never again be able to prosper as a country. They decided to set up a plan to reduce the population growth. It was called “China 's one-child policy”. This policy limits a Chinese family to having only one child. Originally, the Chinese government created this policy in order to minimize the…
The one child policy in 1979 in an attempt to slow the rapidly growing population, initiated by Chinese officials has led to a multitude of uncalculated and sudden catastrophic impingements. These impingements have had, and will continue to have, large scale effects on China’s population. The Chinese government has begun to feel the recoil of their one child policy after the discovery was made that there is an approximant 120 to 100 ratio of males to females in China. This was a crucial discovery for the Chinese officials investigating the other unintended effects of the implantation of the one child policy. The one child policy has been linked to an increase in: human trafficking, birth tourism, social disabilities, crime, and single men.…
China is the world's most populous nation and its population has, on average, increased by over 25 people every minute, every day for the past 40 years. Until the 1960's china encouraged many births per family, because Mao believed that population growth made China more powerful. More people in china, meant more workers, which should let China catch up economically with wealthy countries. The population grew from around 540 million in 1949 to 940 million in 1976. Then beginning in 1970 the government encouraged people to marry later and have two kids. Although this was helping, future population growth was overwhelming and then Chinese leaders proposed the one child policy. In 1979 the one child policy was enacted and China would be dramatically changed. I am against the one child policy because of the four-two-one problem, crime, and socialization problems in the future.…
In order to address overpopulation, the one child policy was brought about to promote one-child families in every household. There are some exceptions where “the government limits most urban couples to one child, and allows two children for rural families if their firstborn is a girl.” (N.P 1) But despite the very few exceptions the one child policy is still extremely demanding and cruel to the citizens. Shouldn’t they have their own right to decide the amount of children they want to bear? It is quite a debatable policy because it carries much success in modernization but has brought about very strict requirements. The population has been significantly curbed that is extremely vital because it’s leading to a less demand of natural resources; however forcing the public of China to abort their second child without any hesitation fuels public anger and dislike. Failure to do so can lead to many consequences such as being rejected from your neighborhood, beaten by the police, fined with thousands of dollars and the…