The One-Child Policy In China
In society today most countries, children are potentially seen as the future. It does not matter if they are female or male. Throughout the Centuries China has been struggling with overpopulation. As of today China is the most populated country in the world, with more than 1.3 billion people. The one child policy in China has been around since 1979 when the Family Planning Commission told all citizens in China that they were restricted to have one child per family. Implementing the one-child policy has created an abundance of problems. China's action on reducing the population with the one-child policy has resulted in an imbalanced ratio of male to females. According to National Bureau of Statistics of China, the government estimated
that 51.127% were males, while 48.73% were females. That means that men will have to compete against each other to find a woman to be their wife. This is detrimental to China's society because countless of men will fail in finding a wife, thus leading to kidnapping and trafficking of women for marriage and increased numbers of commercial sex workers”(Hesketh). Many young girls and even infants were being sold to families out in the countryside, who were in distraught about their sons not finding wives for themselves. The Chinese government authorities confiscated baby girls who were sold to traffickers for the price of eight dollars. The imbalanced gender ratio can be blamed for the cause of illegal sex-selective abortions.
In the culture norm of Asia it is traditionally known that parent's prefer for a boy rather than a girl. Each year in China there are millions of aspiring mothers who are coerced to get abortions or sterilizations because of the One-Child Policy. With the limit of one offspring per family, pregnant women are aborting their unborn child when she finds out that it is a girl.
Each year, millions of aspiring mothers in China are forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations under the One-Child Policy.
that 51.127% were males, while 48.73% were females. That means that men will have to compete against each other to find a woman to be their wife. This is detrimental to China's society because countless of men will fail in finding a wife, thus leading to kidnapping and trafficking of women for marriage and increased numbers of commercial sex workers”(Hesketh). Many young girls and even infants were being sold to families out in the countryside, who were in distraught about their sons not finding wives for themselves. The Chinese government authorities confiscated baby girls who were sold to traffickers for the price of eight dollars. The imbalanced gender ratio can be blamed for the cause of illegal sex-selective abortions.
In the culture norm of Asia it is traditionally known that parent's prefer for a boy rather than a girl. Each year in China there are millions of aspiring mothers who are coerced to get abortions or sterilizations because of the One-Child Policy. With the limit of one offspring per family, pregnant women are aborting their unborn child when she finds out that it is a girl.
Each year, millions of aspiring mothers in China are forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations under the One-Child Policy.