States Should Interfere in Citizens’ Personal Lives by Implementing Mandatory Family Policies.
Task One
In Poland the ‘baby-wrap benefit ‘ is a one-off payment of PLN 1,000; in Denmark families with two or three children receive a considerable monthly family allowance; in China, on the other hand, a couple is allowed to have only one child. Each initiative is intended to reverse unfavourable demographic trends in a given country.
Do you think states should interfere in citizens’ personal lives by implementing mandatory family policies?
Argue for or against such initiatives in an essay. Just before the dawn, a mile from a village in Shandong Province a Chinese woman in her thirties kneels bounding over her newborn girl. A glen, she brought her infant to, hides them from curious witnesses. The baby is scarcely to be seen as she is lying in the thick undergrowth wrapped in a piece of a dirty cloth. With the coming of the daybreak the mother's face reveals misery she has in her heart. She knows that her little innocent daughter does not have any future in this country, not even a small chance to have, at least, a surname. The girl will never be recognised by the state. The woman knows that she must force herself to do something unforgivable. If only she could kill herself…. For the sake of her first-born son she must live. The mother is covering the child's face with the shred of fabric and waiting until the girl stops breathing.
Such terrifying incidents happen in China more often than one could suspect. Citizens' freedom to decide about their personal lives is violated by imposed states' policies not only in China. In both Denmark and Poland governments take actions which make citizens perform in certain ways, as far as their decisions about parenthood are concerned. However, if we look at the rationale from global perspective and recall different situations concerning demography in Europe and Asia, governments' interventions seem to be reasonable. The policies are claimed to be taken to tackle the problems with both over- and under-population.
In Poland the ‘baby-wrap benefit ‘ is a one-off payment of PLN 1,000; in Denmark families with two or three children receive a considerable monthly family allowance; in China, on the other hand, a couple is allowed to have only one child. Each initiative is intended to reverse unfavourable demographic trends in a given country.
Do you think states should interfere in citizens’ personal lives by implementing mandatory family policies?
Argue for or against such initiatives in an essay. Just before the dawn, a mile from a village in Shandong Province a Chinese woman in her thirties kneels bounding over her newborn girl. A glen, she brought her infant to, hides them from curious witnesses. The baby is scarcely to be seen as she is lying in the thick undergrowth wrapped in a piece of a dirty cloth. With the coming of the daybreak the mother's face reveals misery she has in her heart. She knows that her little innocent daughter does not have any future in this country, not even a small chance to have, at least, a surname. The girl will never be recognised by the state. The woman knows that she must force herself to do something unforgivable. If only she could kill herself…. For the sake of her first-born son she must live. The mother is covering the child's face with the shred of fabric and waiting until the girl stops breathing.
Such terrifying incidents happen in China more often than one could suspect. Citizens' freedom to decide about their personal lives is violated by imposed states' policies not only in China. In both Denmark and Poland governments take actions which make citizens perform in certain ways, as far as their decisions about parenthood are concerned. However, if we look at the rationale from global perspective and recall different situations concerning demography in Europe and Asia, governments' interventions seem to be reasonable. The policies are claimed to be taken to tackle the problems with both over- and under-population.