Economic Effects Of China's One Child Policy

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.

China’s One Child Policy was founded in 1949, this policy was founded upon the idea that China’s population was growing at an exponential rate (Doc B). China had one of the largest growing populations at over 150 million every year and with a population density of over 104 people/sq. km in rural areas and in cities up to 22,350/sq. km (Pop. Den.). China’s One Child Policy focuses on lowering the fertility rate of women and in turn lowers the population and population density, this is done by limiting most of the Chinese society to only having one child. China’s One Child Policy was a good idea because it focused on academic achievement, lessened the load on the environment and lowers fertility rates in women which then in turn lowers the already crowded Chinese population.

While china One child Policy was aimed for improvement, the policy has caused some serious social consequences. The New England Journal of Medicine 's article "The Effect of China 's One-Child Family Policy after 25 Years" discuss the social consequences of Chinas One child policy. The One child policy in china begin when Chinese governments viewed population containment as a benefit for living and economic improvement. They created a one child policy that limits the size of families, the policy also includes regulations regarding marriage, spacing and childbearing. The strict policy is controlled with rewards and penalties, it applies to minorities of china which are Urban residents and government employees with the exception of one-child families, first children with disabilities and workers in high-risk work settings. The policy three social consequences concerning population growth, the ratio between men and women, and the ratio between adult children and dependent elderly parents. Each social consequences causes disastrous results. The policy is a sex imbalance that creates social consequences. The sex imbalance is what causes the different social consequence with undesirable effects. The first social consequence is decrease in population growth. Population growth in china has declined in the past 25 years. The policy has prevented many births as stated in the article " Chinese authorities claim that the policy has prevented 250 to 300 million births. The total

The world’s most populated country, occupying a population approaching one and a half billion and contributing to approximately twenty percent of the worldwide population. A country named the People's Republic of China. During the late 1970’s, the overgrowing population of China was reaching one billion, causing problems for the society and government. Chinese citizens were living in extreme poverty and starvation. As a means to rectify these issues, the Chinese government introduced the One Child Policy. This regulation permits couples to have one, and only one child in order to diminish the extremely populated country. The One Child Policy is incredibly controversial, in comparison to many government law and regulation affecting moral and

According to the U.S. Census Bureau the world’s population consists, of more than 7 billion people. China resides as the world’s leading populated country with more than 1.3 billion people. Because, of this over population it maintained fears of their food, resources, and living spaces (International Data Base). The Chinese government then implemented the one-child policy to slow their growing population. The one-child policy has prevailed effectively in slowing down the population growth, but it has caused great anguish among Chinese families.

There are more than 1.3 billion people living and building families in China. Until a century ago, many Chinese families included multiple generations living in the same household. Today, though, it's no longer the norm. A typical Chinese family today includes a married man and woman with one child, and this is generally known as the core family. The percentage of core families continues to rise above other types of family units. This not due to a social coincidence, but a direct reflection of the Chinese government's population control policies.

China has had a one child policy since 1980. The one child policy limits the fertility rate that each woman can have only one child in efforts to cut down the population, and undo what Mao Zedong did to early China. Mao’s goal was to make China the next superpower nation by encouraging people to have many children. Unfortunately, Mao did not know that he was moving China backwards with this kind of thinking. In 1949 after a long civil war over who controlled China, Mao Zedong took control of the newly communist country. Mao wanted China to become a bigger country with a stronger economy so he encouraged people to have more and more children. At the same time, Mao wanted more people to work in the factories and move to the cities. Many problems occurred in this process because too many people moved to the cities and there wasn't enough farmers for their new growing population and economy. Unfortunately, a huge famine occurred, and an estimated 30 million people starved to death as a result. After this disaster, Mao changed his beliefs and then decided he wanted people to stop having more than one child. By 1980 China's population had almost reached 1 billion, and the communist leaders feared that their population was growing too fast. The most logical solution was the one child policy. So, was China’s one child policy a compatible solution to their population problems?

China's one child policy was first announced in 1979. This policy was created to help with china's rapid population growth. Although the policy was suppose to help, the policy showed discrimination against females, and to who may have been aborted, abandoned, or unregistered. If the policy is discriminating against a certain group, that violates human rights. Human rights is a right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person, and if women are forced abortions, violated, and children are taken away from homes, that violates human rights.

China ends its one child policy. well, ending a an unpopular and draconian population control policy is certainly cause for celebration. The one child policy was never supposed to be a permanent thing. it was established in 1979 after a huge population boom in China. After the communist party began its rule in 1949, the population of China almost doubled in 30 years. And this wasn’t a coincidence . Mao ZeDong encourage people to have lots of kids. That’s partially because he was concerned about nuclear war. He said in 1957 speech that it didn’t matter if half of China’s population was killed, because there were so many people, they could just repopulate. At the time, the Communist Party even banned birth control. But eventually ,officials

In 1979, China’s PRC (Peoples Republic of China) introduced a policy that continues to be one of the most controversial issues of its kind still today. The policy remains “Chinas One-Child Policy.” It was set into place with the end goal of controlling a spiraling growth in Chinas population. China consumes roughly 20% of the total world population, but remains having 13% arable land. About one tenth of Chinas land is contaminated. China’s ecological footprint has been on the rise for 15 years now, and has grown passes the United States giving it the largest ecological footprint in the world.

In Beijing, China a girl named Li Xue was born. She was a happy, ordinary looking girl, but you couldn’t guess when looking at her that she was living with a secret. Or that she was, in fact, the secret. Li Xue was a second child. Here in America that is be normal. Most of us have siblings, and some of us even are the second child. But in China that is very uncommon. China made a law in 1979 stating every family could have no more than one child. If you break this law you can have to pay up to one million yuan in fines. (which is the equivalent of $145,619 American dollars). So Li Xue had to spend all of her childhood indoors, where no one could find her. One might ask oneself, why would China have a law on having children? The cause, population

In 1979, China, faced with an overwhelming population growth, implemented a policy limiting family to only having one child. This policy started out by being a voluntary program and within 2 years became a government mandated policy. This policy was intended to be applied evenly throughout all of china, however exceptions were quickly made.

It’s shared knowledge that China had implemented the one child policy for decades. So being the second child of my family and has a four-year-older sister make me unique from my peers. The knowledge of how to get along well with a sibling is my personal knowledge which helps me to be more caring and thoughtful. Although I might be less independent than my friends as I often rely on my sister, I am very glad and lucky to have a sister who I can always share my joy and sorrow with.

Views on family planning in China range from good to bad. Many people have an assumption of what the law is, but never took the time to explore the topic and fully comprehend the importance and the actual meaning of it. Of course, we can all say what a harsh law it is or what a good law it is, but do we truly understand why China did it? Why it has affected many so many people there? It is every human’s right to make the decision to have children, as it is their responsibilities. Did China not believe this? Or did China not respect the God given rights as a human being? In the dictionary it defines rights as, something (as a power or privilege) to which one has a just or lawful claim, and the dictionary also define responsibilities

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.