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…
One reason that the one child policy was a bad idea is because it was unnecessary. A chart shows that China’s fertility rate in 1979 was 2.7 and it decreased down to 1.7 in 2008(Doc B).This evidence supports the claim that the one-child policy was a bad policy because the decline was already in progress.…
people are in favor of the one child policy (OCP) because their lives were made easier. Other…
According to Document A, China’s population had increased when the policy began. In 1920 the population was around 600 million and in 1980 which began the policy was estimated around 900 million. This evidence indicates why china's one-child policy wasn't a success after all. The Fertility rates in document B have decreased in 2008,but it…
I knew about china's one child policy but I did not know boys are so important than girls; even girls are aborted, hidden, abandoned, or even killed. I was so surprised. I am happy for those girls who were adapted to American family; however, still many other girls have tough life. I think that this is very difficult issue because population of China is huge; however, government has…
In 1949, Mao Zedong governed China from nineteen forty nine to nineteen seventy six. Chinas population was poor at the time and the government was running out of ways to help chinas economy fix itself. China was in a dire need for a change. So Mao decided that he would encourage families to have more and more children. His logic was that the more people birthed would mean more workers to work on farms, ensuing a stronger China. He wanted China to thrive and surpass the richer nations. Mao did not realize this at the time but China was about to become one of the most overpopulated countries to exist. After he helped China get on its feet he decided to make a drastic change called the Great Leap Forward. The goal of the Great Leap Forward was to change China from a lush traditional country to a hard, steel producing nation. This recoiled on him and his people started starving because China was not importing enough food to support the growing population, causing thirty million deaths. He needed to fix this problem and fast. His solution was to slow down the growing birth rate with the slogan “Late, long, and few.” The idea behind the slogan was for couples to marry late and have few children. After this, the fertility rate in China was cut in half in only nine years. This decrease in fertility rate did not settle well with the government so the Chinese government implemented the -one-child policy to further decrease the fertility rate. The one-child policy was a policy that banned the Han Chinese, which makes up 90% of Chinas population, from having more than one child. (Background Essay.) Despite the harsh measures it took to put the one-child policy in place, research has shown that the policy has boosted the self esteem of children and saved the environment by increasing the water amount per capita.…
Some of the procedures that have changed is now if the first child born is a female a second child is allowed for consideration but must be approved by the government. Also, the orphanages have become safer since there is an increase in Chinese adoptions from other countries the United States being one of them. Economic resources have also improved allowing for the growth of China to not be as detrimental as it was when the policy was first created. The growth in elderly exceeds the overall population which is an issue for trying to repopulate China. Fertility rates will decrease due to all the implements of the policy creating a new issue for the Chinese Population. Another issue is the gender displacement there are too many males and since…
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.…
The Every Child Matters Policy (DfES 2003, 2004a, 2004b) has according to Arthur, Grainger and Wray (2006) 'served to set educational inclusion within the broader context of radical change in the whole system of children's services including explicitly shifting from intervention to prevention with services working together more effectively'. The overall aim of Every Child Matters is to reduce the number of children who experience educational failure, engage in offending or antisocial behaviour, suffer from ill health or become teenage parents (DfES 2003). The Every Child Matters aims are said to be at the heart of Children Act 2004 (Arthur, Grainger and Wray 2006). Finally, according to Overall and Sangster (2007) the idea of an inclusive school is one that will meet the needs of many pupils in a variety of ways; within special classes, through support for individuals, differentiation in the curriculum and carefully thought through teaching, is an exciting idea.…
“...an April 2009 study published in the British Medical Journal found China still has 32…
China's one-child policy was introduced in 1978, but was implemented in 1980. The policy was implemented by the government because the country's rapidly growing population worried people. Couples who violated the policy faced consequences such as abortion and financial penalties, while couples who complied with the policy received better child care and better housing.…
Unlocking the gates of life came with an entrance fee: a fine my parents had to pay to bring me into the world, a world that already discriminated against me on the sole knowledge of my sex.…
Introduced by the Chinese leadership in 1979 and considered to be one of the most invasive governmental social experiments of our era, the one-child policy in China, on the surface level, appears to have succeeded in its goal of stymieing the growth of the population to a manageable rate. The policy, however, regardless of whether or not it should be credited with the modern-day decreasing fertility rates in China, also brought about unintended social consequences. Despite the fact that this policy was enforced at least in part as a way for the central government to reassert its power in the wake of the cult of Mao and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, it has proven to be another lens through which we see the central government struggling…
Is the two child policy in China harming the nation more than it is helping it? Being that there are twenty-three million abortions a year, many would vote yes. This policy is mandatory of all of China and other countries as well, such as Hong Kong and Vietnam. Parents are allowed to have only two children and if pregnant with another they are forced to have an abortion. Should the regulation of the number of children a person can have be eliminated from China? Due to how it negatively affects society, children, and restrict freedom, China's law of birthing only a boy and a girl should be deregulated.…
The one child policy was first introduced in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s by the central government. The population was rapidly approaching one billion, so Deng Xiaoping implemented the policy to reduce the growth rate of their population.The goal of the policy was the limit the vast majority of families to having only one child. The government started promoting birth control and family planning as a way of limiting family size. The policy was effective at limiting the population in the latter stages of its implementation, but also brought several issues including forced abortions and sterilizations, a male dominant society, fewer children to support their grandparents, and second children being undocumented.…