HIST HP 264-002 | Consequences of China’s One-Child Policy | | | In the mid 1950’s‚ China’s population grew rapidly under Mao Zedong. He felt that the only way for China to get back on its feet was to become industrialized and that China would need manpower for this industrialization. “Even if China ’s population multiplies many times‚ she is fully capable of finding a solution; the solution is production‚" Mao Zedong proclaimed in 1949. "Of all things in the world‚ people are the
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any country in the world. The size of china’s population is both the country ’s greatest weakness and strength. China is one of the few contemporary countries whose National Government implemented an antinatalist policy. The so-called ‘’One-Child policy’’ is brutally simple: have one child or face the consequences. The policy’s background is deeply enrooted in the Chinese history and their family values. Before 1949‚ when the Communist party came to power after a
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One-child Policy Should Not be Abolished In the 1970`s‚ Chinese government implemented one-child policy for Chinese families to control the rapidly growing population (Zhang and Goza 2006). This policy‚ although passed into law for almost 40 years‚ has come under much heated debate on whether China should maintain it or abolish it altogether. Along with Chinese population structure changing‚ two social issues‚ population aging and imbalance of sex ratio arise and gradually become manifest. One-child
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The importance of the U.S. child welfare policies is that it allows the maltreatment of children and abuse to end. The U.S. child welfare policies are important because they lookout for the well-being of the child but also considering what assistance their families may need. Child welfare programs and policies support children‚ however‚ in many cases improve the dynamic between families. For example‚ Child welfare programs such as the adoption assistance and child welfare act of 1980 is important
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world that already discriminated against me on the sole knowledge of my sex. As a female first born in China‚ I experience discrimination everywhere. The establishment of the One Child Policy was an example of favoritism of the male gender and the upper class‚ who get away with having a first-born daughter‚ or even a second child. Even among family members‚ my own grandma never failed to remind me of her thoughts on me being her first grandchild. With my cousin‚ Anthony‚ born just 12 days after me‚ she
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IFRS Illustrative financial statements October 2012 kpmg.com/ifrs 1 Contents What’s new 2 About this publication 3 Independent auditors’ report on consolidated financial statements 5 Consolidated financial statements 7 Consolidated statement of financial position 9 Consolidated statement of comprehensive income – single-statement approach 13 Consolidated statement of changes in equity 17 Consolidated statement of cash flows 21 Notes to
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LEFT REALISM. Left Realism developed in the 1980s and is particularly identified with John Lea and Jock Young (1984). Left Realists are interested to find out why crime was increasing so significantly Left Realism is critical of the perspectives which sees longer prison sentences as the solution to crime‚ (Right Realists) but also oppose the views of left idealists. Therefore it developed as a response to traditional Marxist and neo-Marxist approaches (Left idealists)‚ which
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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
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awareness so that society can help as many people diagnosed as possible. Moreover‚ in Left Neglect‚ Sarah‚ a young mother of three children in elementary school‚ suffers from Left Neglect‚ a disease that paralyze the entire left side of the body. When her husband finds out that she has been in an accident‚ it is hard to accept that a very bright woman can no longer do something as simple as pick up her phone with her left hand. By rebuilding her relationship with her mother and having the support of her
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China’s one child policy was established by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to slow the rise of communist China’s exponential population growth. China is the world’s most populous country and its population will only continue to rise unless something is done about it. Some find it harsh and inhumane to limit the number of offspring‚ but China is doing this for its people. An unchecked population growth puts and enormous strain on resources and hampers economic development. China’s one child policy was necessary
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