Human Populations : One Child China Grows Up

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

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:

Rural women struggled under the double burden of both work and child rearing (Roberts, 1999). And, infamously, the one-child family policy, which required most Chinese families to have only a single child, robbed women of any control over their own bodies. This paper will recount the history of the Chinese government’s struggle with its growing population, culminating in the one-child policy, describe the goals and enforcement methods of the policy itself, examine the effectiveness of the policy, outline the government’s shift to its new, current two-child policy, and argue that the one-child policy shows the continuation of female repression in China, despite the Communists’ promises.

In conclusion, the standard of living and the economy of China before the one-child policy was not better off after the policy was enforced and to some extent, it can be said that the policy helped steer the economy of China in the desired direction, considering how far she has come within the world today. The disadvantages of overpopulation are numerous and some of it’s compound problems immeasurable. China before the one-child policy had just cause to view overpopulation as a serious threat. The one-child policy provided China with a way to prevent the impending population explosion. At the time, it was the only solution that had concrete evidence it would actually work at controlling the rate of population growth based on the limitations

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 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 official policy concerning the size of the family by its mere existence is a viola-tion of basic human rights an human reproductive rights that been reaffirmed throughout human history and is becoming an international norm. Furthermore, it is unlikely that China’s official policy regarding family size will go away; more than likely the current policy will be replaced by another of similar content.

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

a photo of fine with her stillborn baby went viral on social media, causing an outcry agains family planning enforcement. fang live in a rural area, so she should have been able to have a second child. However, she had not applied for a birth permit before getting pregnant. She was fined because she did not have a birth permit and because she could not pay for the fine, government ask her to abort the child. Under the one child policy , there have been more than 330 million abortion and almost 200 million sterilizations. If Feng’s daughter had been born, she would not be able to get a residence permit.It means that she could not go to school, get a job, and even go to the doctor.There are 6.5 million undocumented Chinese in the exact situation. Is change the one child policy will be a good thing? It looks like family planning commissions will still exist to enforce the two child policy and a the big reason is money. A lot of local government make a substantial part of their revenue from family planning fines, especially in poorer areas. there;s even saying that for money, “ big cities depend on land, small towns depend on birth planning.” Some estimate that fines have made more than 300 billion dollars since the one- child policy

How exactly does this “One Child Law” control the Chinese population? Forced abortions, yep it’s real a

While it seems somewhat reasonable for a government to encourage family planning, and to provide the population with access to birth control, it seems a bit out of line for them to ask a family to have only one child. The pressure of only having one child, in combination with a cultural favoritism toward males is what makes the one-child policy so gravely concerning. It is clear that the excess female infant mortality is directly attributable to the birth-control policy, which caused the pre-existing prevalence of son preference to escalate. In China, son preference is the product of ingrained social norms. Girls and women still occupy a lower social status in society (Zilberberg, 2007). The one-child policy requires authorization for each birth- children are required to be reported to receive documentation that allows them to be part of society- to attend school, to hold a job in adulthood, and to marry. Women are consistently

“A greater population means greater manpower” (Mao qtd. in Fitzpatrick). Mao highlights the importance of childbearing during his infamous reign over the Communist Party in China. The Great Leap Forward in 1958 was Mao’s plan to make China great again. However, his plan leads the country in turmoil because a famine fell upon the country due to overpopulation and citizens were dying daily in the countryside. His encouraging quote, “Of all things in the world, people are the most precious,” became a meaningless statement when China’s One-Child Policy was implemented in 1980 to control the population (Mao qtd. in Fitzpatrick).

Ebstein states in his article The “missing girl” of china and the unintended consequences of the one child policy, that in 1970 China was worried because of the “`Malthusian collapse’-unchecked population growth that eventually outstrips” the country of its resources (Ebstein). China`s one child policy began as a birth planning program which later developed into the Marxian theory that was presented in 1978 by a few scholars. The Marxian theory states that your status in the society is determined by the amount that you produce. The scholars that presented this theory took into account the costs that the society would face due to the population policies that might be passed. They recognized that the one child policy could cause an imbalance that will have a seismic effect in China. China`s one child policy was introduced by dictator Deng Xiang Ping in 1979. His goal was to be able to reduce china`s population to 700 million (Hesketh). In the beginning the one child policy was able to drop China`s fertility rate to about 1.94 percent (Hesketh).The one child policy received a lot of resistance from the local but it also received a lot of attention from other scholars who thought that this policy was already doomed from the beginning with a lot of

At the start of China’s economic reforms in late 1970s, the Chinese leadership established population control as one of its main priorities. The post-Mao leadership believed that China population control was the key to ensure growth in per capita income. This led to the elevation of the one-child policy. The one-child policy of China was the official family planning policy that was aimed at controlling the population of China. The one-child was introduced in 1979 mainly to help in alleviating economic, social and environmental problems in China. It was estimated by demographers that the policy helped avert about 200 million births between 1979 and 2009 although some other estimates puts it at 400 million. About two and half decades after the