Abortion: The Malthusian Limit In China

China has one of the biggest populations in the world, and it will become a problem if untreated. China realised that it had a population problem and introduced its policy in 1980. China's one-child law: Was it a good plan? The one-child policy helped prevent millions of births, this may have saved china from a famine.

With more than 1.3 billion people, China has to think about a solution and find ways to deal with its population explosion. In order to have control over population, in 1970, a policy named China’s One Child Policy was introduced. Mingliang argues that, “China, through the one-child policy, has instituted the most aggressive, comprehensive population policy in the world” (1). This policy limits all families in the Republic of China to have only one child, regardless of the sex: however, within this policy there are some exceptions. It is possible to have two children only if the first child is born with a disability, if parents work in a high risk job, if the couple lives in villages, or if the family is a non- Han, otherwise you are

The one child policy was adopted to help improve economic, environment, and population problems in China. The policy was used to limits the number of children that couples can have. When , the law was introduced it was only supposed to help with the overpopulation but , it has caused many children to be left and abandoned. Although China has a population problem, the one child policy was not the right way to handle the situation.

According to ChinaWaterRisk.org, “Experts project that water supply will not be able to meet demand by 2030 if China carries on with business as usual.” In 1949 China became a Communist nation and was taken control of by Mao Zedong. Mao believed humans were extremely precious and people should produce as much offspring as possible. The slogan “Late, Long, and Few,” meaning to marry late, wait long before having children, and have very few children, came into play when Mao realized the large increase in population. The Great Leap forward was introduced because Mao Zedong’s contained a goal to be economically even with other countries including the United States. Due to the estimated 30 million

Due to the one-child policy there are many serious human rights infractions. Since the policy has been in effect, there have been more than 400 million prevented births ("China:

China’s one-child policy made it illegal for most Chinese couples to have more than one child. It was the culmination of the government’s long struggle to control population growth. The policy was enforced mainly through financial incentives and punishments, but in rural areas brutal enforcement techniques like non-consensual sterilization and abortion were sometimes used. While the policy did reduce the population, it also caused problems such as an unbalanced male-female sex ratio and “4:2:1 families.” The one-child policy shows that women in Communist China remained in a position of social and political inferiority.

“China Will Have another Major Demographic Problem,” is an article on About.com written by Matt Rosernberg. It explains the great imbalance between man and women due to China’s One Child Policy, and how this situation will disturb the stability and development of China because the high numbers of bachelors tend to damage community by doing crimes and violence. The policy says that a couple could only have a child. This was created as a temporary solution since China was overpopulated by 972 million people in 1979 (Rosenberg). Through years this policy is proven to reduce the population growth. However, there have been some unintended side effects. Not only did this policy create the gender imbalance, but also many other issues, such as: the high population of unmarried men, human trafficking, and the high rate of suicide.

China’s One-Child Policy which was created in 1980, brought much negativity among people, this policy restricted and disabled many human rights and violations in which i totally disagree with this entire policy. It blocked and restricted many family members to inherit and have kids which was a very disturbing matter, it’s sad how at that time parents couldn’t have babies born. There were many other negative impactful factors, there was a lot of racial discrimination among blacks and other races in that time period, people started forcing them to work as a slave tragically. One of the most important major factors that stood out in the One-Child Policy was

In October 12, 1999, the world's population has reached to 6 billion people. about only 12 years later (October 31, 2011) the world has gone up to 7 billion. Many people on the planet are worried about the world population going too high. They fear that too many people would result in starvation and quick depletion of resources. Some people believe that we should have some type of law that would limit the number of children we can have in each family. Something similar has come true in China about 30 years ago. In September 25, 1980, China's One-Child Policy has been created. This policy keeps parents from having more than one baby with the exception of twins, triplets, quadruplets, and so on. Parents may also have

According to Mao Zedong the Communist leader of China, “people are the most precious.”, yet China still supports the one-child policy. In 1960 Mao Thought about the out of control birth rate and had an idea to reduce the numbers by introducing “Late,Long and Few.” Meaning for couples to marry late, wait a while to have children, then have less children than they had planned to have. Is it a good idea for the government to control family decision such as the number of children a couple can have? The One-Child Policy by China is not a good idea because it created poor health for women, many social problems for the youth and the elderly, and it created gender imbalanced.

In 1976,Mao Zedong died,and his eventual successor,Deng Xiaoping led a government which opted to make the “two child policy.”a”one child policy.The program was officially begun in 1979.The program was applied much more regularly and harshly in urban as compared to rural areas of china. The program was applied because china had to many people.China’s Population Law should be abolished because it violates human rights, creates an “invisible” generation, and harms the economy.

The One-Child Policy is a policy created in 1979, as an effort to reduce the population during a time when the Chinese population growth was increasing rapidly, needed a solution to decrease the population, and this policy would specifically mandate that all the Chinese couples would only be allowed to have one child. Since the policy was introduced and implemented, it created social issues in China, which were not anticipated when in the creation process. This policy has created a gender imbalance in favor of men from a deep-rooted culture preference of having a son. Chinese culture has a son preference for several reasons consisting of a labor incentive, religious rituals, property inheritance, and old-age security-related. Following the

While the United States and China are aware of the importance of family, both countries look at the issue completely different. China’s reluctance to lift the number of children a woman can have is a growing concern that continues to affect China. The refusal to lift the ban will affect China’s economy and country as a whole for decades to come. In the United States, issues surrounding the concept of family are arising, especially in the upcoming Presidential election where abortion is one of the main concerns. The public is continuing to raise concerns surrounding the abortion laws, viewing abortions as a moral decision and what constitutes the killing of an innocent life.

China is a land that contains an overpopulation crisis. With a current estimated 1.4billion people living in China, something needed to be done in order to lower the birth rates and control the fast growing population. The solution the Chinese government came up with was the one child policy. They set up a number penalties and benefits in order to encourage the Chinese people to cooperate with this policy. The predicted outcome was to reduce the birth rates and reduce their population, which was ultimately affecting the Chinese economy. However, the one child policy created an unexpected crisis of its own, the creation of unequal demographics of gender and the start of a new cultural and economic trend. This paper is going to study the

China’s population growth began to increase during the Ming Dynasty, and increased dramatically throughout Qing. The population grew around 65million in the late 14th century to more than 400 million in 1949 (Spengler 1962: 112). Since the People Republic of China was founded, Mao had seen the population growth as favorable to industrialization, and he believed that population growth empowered the country (Potts 2006). In the 1950s, the government began to realize that the food supply would soon become insufficient for the rapidly growing population, and stopped encouraging people to have more children through propaganda posters. In the beginning of the 1970s, the government launched the “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign.