Argumentative Essay China's One-Child Policy
According to the U.S. Census Bureau the world’s population consists, of 6,908,497,829 people. China resides as the world’s leading populated country with 1,336,718,015 people. Because, of this over population it maintained fears of their food, resources, and living spaces. The Chinese government then implemented the one-child policy. The one-child policy has prevailed effectively in slowing down the population growth, but it has caused great anguish among Chinese families. Matt Rosenberg explains how one of the problems facing China in recent years is overpopulation. The Chinese government needed to make a policy to cope with the growing numbers of Chinese citizens. China remains the only country in the world where it is illegal to have a brother or sister. China's one child policy became established by the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 as a solution to stop the over population. The Policy states that parents who live in the city subsist to having only one child. When the One Child Policy was put into place in 1979 it had three goals in mind: control the population growth of China, improving the status of women, and eradicating of poverty.
First, slowing population growth. One-child policy has effectively checked the trend of over-rapid population growth. In the 15 years from the founding of the People's Republic to 1964, China's population increased from 500 million to 700 million, and on average 7.5 years were needed for the population to increase by 100 million. The 1964-1974 periods were one of high-speed growth where China's population increased from 700 million to 900 million in ten years. In 1973, China began to promote family planning throughout the country. China has been through the third post-1949 peak period of births from the beginning of the 1990s, the community of women in their prime of fertility (aged 20 to 29) has exceeded 100 million each year on average, and such