Chinas One Child Policy
Crystal Valencia
Mr. Smock
Language Arts 4, Period 2
11 March 2013
China’s One Child Policy Like Arthur Waley states "When a son is born, Let him sleep on the bed, Clothe him with fine clothes, And give him jade to play…When a daughter is born, Let her sleep on the ground, Wrap her in common wrappings, And give broken tiles to play…". Traditional Chinese Society value and worship boys rather than girls because they say boys are more beneficial since they are harder workers and they carry on the last name of the family. Even though China may be heavily populated, its one child policy is brutal and needs to stop because newborn females are being abandoned, murdered, and abortions are conducted at an alarming rate. In 1967, the one child policy was introduced to limit the population since it was one of the worlds most populated country. “The one child family policy was developed and implemented in response to concerns about the social and economic consequences of continued rapid population growth” (Kane). This policy limited every family to have one child in order to try and decrease the size of the population in China. In some areas, the law didn’t apply if the first born child was a girl, military officers of a certain rank, members of China’s many ethnic minorities or farmers who were poor. Many families who decided to have more than one child, weren’t able to obtain a birth certificate, education, future birth control, and a fine would be applied to each and every other child one has. Those who didn’t want to face the consequences of having another child, often aborted or just left the baby to die in the street, especially if it was a baby girl. The frequent use of abortion and neglect in china is just savage to those innocent babies of Chinese families. Female Infanticide increased in China due to this one child policy. “Although the Chinese government recognized the risks to female infants in rural areas where anti-female bias is greater, allowing
Mr. Smock
Language Arts 4, Period 2
11 March 2013
China’s One Child Policy Like Arthur Waley states "When a son is born, Let him sleep on the bed, Clothe him with fine clothes, And give him jade to play…When a daughter is born, Let her sleep on the ground, Wrap her in common wrappings, And give broken tiles to play…". Traditional Chinese Society value and worship boys rather than girls because they say boys are more beneficial since they are harder workers and they carry on the last name of the family. Even though China may be heavily populated, its one child policy is brutal and needs to stop because newborn females are being abandoned, murdered, and abortions are conducted at an alarming rate. In 1967, the one child policy was introduced to limit the population since it was one of the worlds most populated country. “The one child family policy was developed and implemented in response to concerns about the social and economic consequences of continued rapid population growth” (Kane). This policy limited every family to have one child in order to try and decrease the size of the population in China. In some areas, the law didn’t apply if the first born child was a girl, military officers of a certain rank, members of China’s many ethnic minorities or farmers who were poor. Many families who decided to have more than one child, weren’t able to obtain a birth certificate, education, future birth control, and a fine would be applied to each and every other child one has. Those who didn’t want to face the consequences of having another child, often aborted or just left the baby to die in the street, especially if it was a baby girl. The frequent use of abortion and neglect in china is just savage to those innocent babies of Chinese families. Female Infanticide increased in China due to this one child policy. “Although the Chinese government recognized the risks to female infants in rural areas where anti-female bias is greater, allowing
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