China 's One Child Policy

By introducing China’s One-Child Policy (Family Planning Policy) in 1979, China hopes to decrease its country’s annual population growth. China has implemented the policy by many different

Since 1980, China has made its people the subject of an intrusive and unfair, One Child Policy. This policy was the result of Chinese officials becoming worried of the countries jump in population from 1960 to 1980 causing a widespread lack of resources, so they decided to induct a law that would make force Chinese citizens to be limited to one child. Because of this controversial policy the question has been raised, did the one child policy positively or negatively effect China? The one child policy did negatively effect China and its people, because it resulted in gender discrimination, unjust punishments and was unnecessary due to the already declining fertility rate.

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

There has been a long history of China’s one child policy, since it was first introduces in 1979 by a Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping (Rosenberg n.p). The law was meant to be temporary and used to control the population; however it is still in use today (Rosenberg n.p). When the policy was first enforced, it only

After China suffered population overcrowding, China passed the one-child policy to fix these problems in 1979. The policy tried to lower fertility rates, the rate of child births and pregnancies, but was the one child policy a good idea? Despite this, the one child policy was not a good idea for China because the population was already lowering, lack of young workers, and social issues.

What is important to understand the One Child Policy is the reasoning behind it and what spurred the Chinese government to do something so drastic. When Mao Zedong’s communist rule was in full

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.

With China being formidable of their nation, not having enough resources to support its vast and rapidly increasing population. Officials implemented an extensive population control program that the Communist Party introduced in 1980 as the One-Child policy. Chinese government law that avoids families from having another child. Those only of the Han Chinese ethnic group that make up 90% of the Chinese population are to be fined, and punished with forced sterilization and abortions. While some see the One-Child policy as making their lives easier and are even rewarded with a “Certificate of Honor.” Correspondingly I see it as assault and clearly violates human rights to the families to not let them enjoy the natural phenomenon of human birth.

In 1979, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the one child policy. This was part of the family planning policy to help control China’s growing population. This policy limited a couple, of a man and a woman, to only one child. Fines, pressures to abort a pregnancy, forced sterilization accompanied second or unwanted pregnancies. Although many think the one child policy was a law, it surprisingly was not. It was a policy enforced by the system of punishments. The punishments of disregarding the policy included being fined a great deal of money, demotion, and discharge from work. China’s government was inhumane in enforcing the policy.

The one-child policy is a population control policy that was introduced in 1979 to relive social, economic, and environmental problems in China. At the time the growth rate of China’s population was very high and the main purpose of the policy was to limit the large family units in the country to one child each. After implementing the policy, the government hoped to see reduction in the growth rate of its enormous population. Sometimes couples can have a second child only if their first was a girl or had disabilities. As of today, China’s government believes that their one-child policy will result in a wealthier, healthier

For years, the One-Child Policy were unevenly and unfairly challenged the female’s reproductive right. During the One-Child Policy, with the limitation for only one child, in some cases, women feel that their reproductive organs are owned by the country, as they no longer have sovereignty over their bodies (Jaffery). Under the One-Child Policy, the Chinese government implement many methods to regulate fertility, including forced abortions on women who become pregnant with a second child, sterilization to prevent accidental pregnancies and the threat of heavy fine and unemployment. Some of the methods make women think they have no choice on how many babies they want and their fertility are remain under the control of the government. According

This article discusses how the one child policy has changed China’s development. The policy was implemented in 1979, to get in control of the population growth as quickly as possible. It was determined that without a decline in fertility, China’s economy would not have been able to grow by 7-8% a year over the past decade. Some believe that China overreacted and that the fertility rate could have been lowered without the policy. Other effects of the policy are women tend to marry men that are several years older than them, and there are fewer women because China has the tradition of favoring boys.

China had implemented one-child policy for about 35 years that affects China’s population declining. Moreover, aging population has been increasing; in this year they reach to 131 million, and will be many more in 2030, about 243 million. In addition, the policy also leads to the highest number of abortions in China because the cultural pressure makes the Chinese unwilling to have a female baby and they decide to abort her. As a developed country, China needs more workers for their big economic development; yet, Chinese workers, which are 15-64 years old, have been significantly decreasing because the majority of them are over-aged. To overcome the problems, the government of China deletes the one-child policy and replaced it to a new one that permits their citizens to have two children. However, the goverment has some obstacles in applying this policy. Mr. Liang said that even though

“Vigilantes abduct pregnant women on the streets and haul them off, sometimes handcuffed or troused, to abortion clinics (some) aborted babies cry when they are born,” said Steve Mosher. China’s policy was so strict to a point where they prevented a child’s birth just to keep the population number low. Statistics show that the Chinese government prevented over 400 million births. The one-child policy was implemented to curb a then surging population and limit the demands for water and other resources, as well as to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems in China. One of the most significant effects of the policy has been on China’s sex ratio. China has a grossly unequal ratio of about 114 males to every 100 females. Due to the policy, many families were forced to only having one child. With that, baby boys were valued in China’s society than baby girls because boys carry on the ancestral name and are responsible for taking care of aged parents. Because of this many families would abandon their baby girl, sometimes leaving her on the streets, railways stations, and public buildings. The one-child policy left no more than sad memories for China’s nation. The law consisted of forced abortions and an unbalanced gender society. Although it was meant for the greater good of the people by decreasing the population to increase scarce resources, it caused many girls to be left abandoned by their own families.

In 1979, China implemented a one child per family policy. This policy was designed to reduce crowding and to maintain a stable economy. Families who do not adhere to this policy are charged fines and are pressured to abort second or third pregnancies and to undergo sterilization surgery. They may also be subject to social ridicule and disproval. There are certain exemptions to this policy. For example, in certain areas of rural China, couples are allowed to have two children. If both individuals in a couple come from single child home, they too may be allowed to produce two children. While these exceptions may seem to increase the fairness of this policy, the policy itself is completely flawed and inefficient. This is a fundamentally wrong