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Essay China's One Child Policy

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The Chinese Republic has over than one billion people. China had a leading civilization for centuries guiding the whole world in different fields. However, in the 19th and the 20th century China suffered form serious problems, which resulted from huge numbers of population. When China was under the leadership of Mao who believed that a strong nation must have large population, the population of China increased rapidly until it reached its double. From one hand, Peng Peiyun, the writer of "One family, one child", stressed two crucial factors, which are over population and being a developing country as drawbacks preventing China form achieving any progress to be an advanced country. According to Peiyun, the only available …show more content…

She concludes with an illustration for the of the outcomes and results of the state's policy by comparing the conditions of China before and after enforcing the one-child-policy. She concludes with the title "Danger Remaining" to emphasize that the danger is remaining until the number of births per year reduces from 20 million to 14 million. On the other hand, the writers of "Rethinking family values" Carroll Bogert and George Wehrfritz believe that there must be an alternative solution for the one-child-policy because it is considered a serious violation for human rights. The writers introduce the roots of the problem when China was under the leadership of Mao. Then they gravely criticize the methods used by the government to control the population in China by using inhuman systems like forced abortions and forced sterilization. Another problem that emerged because of the wrong enforcement of the one-child-policy is the gender imbalance. Chinese prefer boys rather than girls because boys support their families later, but girls do not as they marry and leave their families. Finally, the writers support their opinion with simple words from Peng Peiyun who issued a circular listing" seven don's" of population policy (don't beat up people who have an unplanned birth; don't burn their houses down, etc.), however, it has never been published. Thus, it is obvious that the one-child-policy is a

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