China's Invisible Children & the One Child Law

In the mid-1980's, according to Chinese government statistics, birth control surgeries such as abortions, sterilizations, and IUD insertions, were running at a rate of 30 million a year. (Mosher 50) Numbers for more recent years are unavailable; the Chinese government, embarrassed by reports of coercion and female infanticide, has refused to release them. Many, if not most, of these operations are performed on women whose "consent" has been wrung out of them by threats and punishments. (Mosher 50) When questions are asked of the whereabouts of the 1.7 million female babies that fail to show up in birth statistics each year, there are disturbing explanations. (Richards 6)

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.

In 1970, China instituted the one child policy restricting most couples to have only one offspring. Couples who violate the one-child policy face various punishments such as fines, loss of employment, sterilization and even forced abortions. For years, authorities claimed that this policy became a major contributor to China’s economic boost which had prevented 400 million births.

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

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.

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.

China’s one-child policy was implemented in 1979 by Deng Xiaoping to limit China’s population growth, under the belief that overpopulation would inhibit its economic growth (History of the One-Child Policy). The policy restricted couples to only have one child, unless they were of an ethnic minority (Pong, 168). It was later amended in 2002 to include allowing two only-child parents to have two children, and allowed rural families to have another child if the first was a daughter (China’s One-Child Policy). On October 25, 2015, the Chinese government repealed the one-child policy in favor of a two-child policy because of the massive gender imbalance that it had caused (Taylor). Principally led by the much reviled establishment of the one-child policy, China’s abundance of males compared to females dramatically altered the demographics of the country, leaving millions of men unable to have a family, damaging the traditional cultural aspect of the Chinese family (Brooks). The disproportion originated from a traditionally boy-favoring Chinese culture and the future economic support a boy promised, while widespread use of ultrasound technology caused a decrease in births of girls (Brooks). Although successful in its goals of limiting population growth, the one-child policy, because of the Chinese cultural and economic support boys provided, had the unintended consequence of creating a gender imbalance, resulting in

In China there policy for birth control is a state policy and they must sustain it with no questions asked. The birth control system is a system that is assemble for punishment . The president of Women’s Rights without frontiers said “ Characterising this latest modifications abandoning the one-child policy misleading. Women are arrested if they refuse to have an abortion than it is is forced on them . The policy for China’s One Child Policy was made up on September 25, 1980.

One child laws in China are starting to raise questions of acceptance in other countries. Because of one-child laws in China, there is an abnormal gender imbalance. In China, there are currently 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls. If these numbers continue in this imbalanced growth pattern there will be no need for a one-child law because there will be no women to carry on reproduction. Since there can only be one child to each family, the parents prefer a boy, they consider boys to be better workers and a male child carries on the family name. Because of this desire to have a son, 1,500 children aborted every HOUR in China. “Women who get pregnant without permission are dragged out of their homes, strapped down to tables, and forced to abort

There is a time bomb that is ready to go off, possibly within our lifetime; this device is constructed not by terrorist but by an ever increasing world population. In an effort to combat its own population problem, China has promoted policies with the intent of slowing down the growth rate of that nation’s approximately 1.3 billion people. The population policies that are be-ing adopted raise fundamental issues concerning human rights. Does a government have the right to place limits on the size of the family through official policies? The answer to that question is No! The Peoples Republic of China’s adoption of a Two Child and its predecessor the One Child policy is a violation of basic human reproductive rights. Support of

In the 1970’s china had the largest population growth rate of any country at 3%. The one child policy was introduced to slow the country’s growth, which is succeeded in doing, but it had negative impacts on the country as a whole. Firstly according to our book “Under the one-child policy, families that had more than one child were penalized financially, and educational opportunities and housing privileges were kept from families who broke the one-child mandate.” (72). what that means is parents who had more than one child were fined, and their children were not afforded the same right to education as children form one child families. The next problem is because China traditionally favors males over females, there were huge numbers of female

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chinese government put in place the One Child Policy in order to limit the majority of families to one child each and reduce China’s population growth rate. In reality, China’s One Child Policy consisted of many one child policies, which were generally better implemented and stricter in urban areas than in rural areas. Variations of the general one child policy included allowing the rural families in some areas, families of some ethnic minority groups, families with handicapped firstborn children, and families with

Chinese government sets out to control the population, hence they will only allow couples to have only one child. In 1970, the country ran a campaign under the slogan “Late, Long and Few,” for birth control which was successful, and it cuts the population growth in half between 1970 and 1976. As the 1970’s was ending, the nation was still looking at food shortages and starvation killed 30 million people by 1962. In 1979 the stricter policy was implemented, and it stated couples could only have one child. In 1980 the Central Committee issued an open letter which was the official start of the law. To carry out the laws, the government fines couples for having another child without a permit. They have also made more incentives for the expectant

China’s One Child policy is a policy that the Chinese government introduced in 1979 to try and solve the problem of overpopulation. The Policy’s main purpose was to make sure that China could support its large population with facilities such as healthcare, education, housing, good jobs and most importantly, food. The aim was to reduce poverty and to improve overall quality of life for the people. China’s one-child policy has led to unintended and negative consequences, such as a diminishing labor force, an aging population, the neglect of basic human rights, and an unbalanced sex ratio gender population. To improve China’s situation, the policy should be reversed.