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.

Would it be fair for the Government to control how many children you have? Is it fair for them to kill your unborn children? Since 1949 under the rule of Mao Zedong, the communist Chinese government had enforced policies that control families and couples in China. The Government has forced the people to have more children at one point and less at another. The One-Child policy in China limits Chinese couples to one child each. The three exceptions to the policy are: Minority ethnic groups, urban single-child residents, and the policy only enforced on the Han Chinese. The one-child policy was a bad idea for China for three reasons: punishments (inequality), unfair treatment of women, and china’s fertility rate was already decreasing

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

Although the One-Child Policy in China had downfalls, the benefits overcome. In fact, many believe China’s One-Child Policy was not a good idea and had many flaws. I strongly believe China’s One-Child Policy was a sufficient theory in assisting environmental crises, strengthening feminine power, and revealing benefits of having singleton

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:

The one child policy is a horrible law. The one child policy was instituted on September 25, 1980 in China a little more than 34 years ago. The one child policy limits every family to having one child only, to reduce population growth. There are endless reasons on why the one child policy is a very negative law. Gender inequalities, forced abortions, and not enough young people to take care of the elderly are just some of the many problems with the one child policy. The one child policy is one of the most ridiculous things that has ever happened.

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.

“China Will Have another Major Demographic Problem,” is an article on About.com written by Matt Rosernberg. It explains the great imbalance between man and women due to China’s One Child Policy, and how this situation will disturb the stability and development of China because the high numbers of bachelors tend to damage community by doing crimes and violence. The policy says that a couple could only have a child. This was created as a temporary solution since China was overpopulated by 972 million people in 1979 (Rosenberg). Through years this policy is proven to reduce the population growth. However, there have been some unintended side effects. Not only did this policy create the gender imbalance, but also many other issues, such as: the high population of unmarried men, human trafficking, and the high rate of suicide.

Is it okay to kill a child never born? Is it okay to deprive a mother of giving breath to another life? It is okay to burden an only child’s shoulders with responsibilities?A one child policy would inflict these issues upon many families. Although there are credible arguments to support each side of the debate, it is clearly inappropriate for the government to enact one-child legislation in order to control the population.

In the light of the One Child Policy, it has had many economic ramifications and environmental impact as a result. The most effective impact was the diminishment of the population growth rate and there has been a great deal since the policy began. An unchecked growth of population would have made China more poor than it already was. More doles, more expenditure in welfares or support schemes would have costed and the country would not have become one of the largest economies that it is today. It would have been debt ridden and there could have been an economic collapse. An unchecked population would also have had a bearing on the environment. The question of where would the necessities needed to survive come from would arise when they are fighting

     Resistance to the governments cruel system is nearly impossible. Failure to comply China's law is considered a major threat. If a woman resists an abortion, she is harassed and sometime either held or visited repeatedly by a group the government has set up so innocently called Family Planing. In some extreme circumstances night raids are made, where women are captured who try to hide or escape the birth planning program. Other times the government issues extreme fines upon families with illegal births. Some families are even forced into hiding because they cannot afford these penalties. These fines can

Fetal protection laws may begin with good intentions but only lead to a hierarchy in situations of abuse and violence. The unborn child is at the top of the charts when fetal protection laws are in place, its presence being perceived as the most innocent and therefore the most worthy of justice under the law. Pregnant

The food supply was shrinking, as well as general space for people in the already overflowing China. In the midst of a rapidly growing population the Chinese government took extreme matters. In the late 1970s and early 80s the central government of China initiated the One-Child Policy. Established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, implementing the policy was to reduce the growth rate of China's vast population. Every couple or family should only have one child. The policy has been estimated to have reduced population growth in the country of 1.3 billion by as much as 300 million people over its first twenty years, according to About Education. Those who survived the culture are called “Lost Generation” while the children who were born under