One Child Policy

China’s one-child policy caused female babies to be killed and the elderly neglected. When Mao Zedong had control of China he thought that more people meant more workers however by 1960 China’s population exploded and the one child was established. Was the one child policy a good idea? China’s one child policy was a bad idea because, not enough workers, too many elderly, infanticide of female babies, and because it was not needed.

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.

The final reason that the one-child policy was a bad idea is because of the fact that China’s fertility rate was already decreasing and was one of the lowest rates compared to Brazil, South Korea, and Thailand in 1979 making the policy pointless and unnecessary. “The claim by the Chinese officials that the one child policy has helped avert over 400 million births simply cannot be substantiated by

The one child policy was adopted to help improve economic, environment, and population problems in China. The policy was used to limits the number of children that couples can have. When , the law was introduced it was only supposed to help with the overpopulation but , it has caused many children to be left and abandoned. Although China has a population problem, the one child policy was not the right way to handle the situation.

Was China's one-child policy all that bad? Ask yourself this, what was China’s one child policy? The one-child policy was put in place to stop the Chinese Han, an ethnic group, from a population overload! Without the one-child policy, China’s overpopulation was causing supply shortages, unemployment, damage to economy and pollution. This policy also had some exceptions to the rules.

China's one-child family policy has had a great effect on the lives of nearly a quarter of the world's population for a quarter of a century, after it was introduced in 1979. One of the effects is often referred to as “Little Emperor’s Syndrome”, which is when the only child received excessive amounts of attention from relatives causing a “spoilt brat” generation to occur. This puts both social and economic pressures on the families and children. By only having one child per family it allows the family to solely use its resources on that child; thus allowing the child to often

One important idea form the article is that one child policy did has a positive effect on China’s future economic growth. Pei-Ju Liao writes, “The results suggest that introducing the one-child policy promotes the accumulation of human capital and increases per capita output”. I totally agree with her point. In China, Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party of China 1949-76, believed that "there’s strength in number ”, one way that empowers the country is the growth of population. They even come up with a medal called “hero mother” to encourage women to have more babies. This strategy significantly increased the Chinese population. The population almost doubled from 541.67 million to 962.59 million between 1949 and 1978. During this period, one woman had about 6 children on an average. Finally, this gradually decreased due to natural causes. Parents used to

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to never have little siblings, well in most chinese families it’s like that. There are many pros and cons to this rule too. This rule started in the 1970’s, and the less children you had the more the rewards you got from the government. Before this rule China’s birth rate was growing to rapidly for the government to supply food for all the people. This may be hard to follow but this rule had positive and negative effects on society.

However, after new Chinese leaders took control of the government, they enforced a policy that limited population growth so that it did not surpass economic development and availability of resources. As a result, the One-Child Policy would be passed and it would impact the lives of every Chinese family. Furthermore, although the policy was meant to help the nation, it would spark fierce debate over its practicality and ethicality.

The one-child policy decreases the value of girls in China. In “How Chinese Art Explores Its One- child policy,” Sebag-Montefiore states, “China has the most uneven sex ration in the world, with 117 boys born for every 100 girls. In a culture that traditionally favours male offspring, girls have been abandoned, murdered and aborted” (Sebag- Montefiore). In “China’s One- Child Policy Turns 33 as Forced Abortions, Female Infanticides Continue,” Littlejohn claims: “The one child

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

35 years after world war II had ended, the leaders of china feared that their nation was over populating and not have enough resources to support their huge and rapidly increasing population. In 1949 after the civil war that had lasted more than 20 years, Mao Zedong and his communist won the control of china. He implied that his revolution was based on classless society. This policy has either benefited families for more job opportunities for age workers and but this was a disadvantage for families with more than one child because education, food and everyday necessities would be much more expensive than families with one child. At the time, China was a very poor country having diseases and natural disasters. The 3 main causes of the one child policy were Economic,Ethical, and Social effects.

In the 1970’s, China introduced several plans to reduce the country's birth rate and slow the population growth rate. The most prominent plan was the “one child policy.” The “one child policy,” established in 1979, meant that each couple in China was allowed to have only one child. The policy made sure that China was able to support their large population with resources such as education, housing, food, jobs, and healthcare.

The one Child Policy was introduced in the year of 1979 in order to stabilize china’s rapidly growing population. At that time China’s population had reached around 970 million people, making them the most populated country at that time. The one child policy states that the ethnic majority, could only have one child. The goal of the policy was and still is to control the population growth and to make sure it would not have a negative effect on the economic development and also the demand for natural resources were really high because there were a lot of people in need of the natural resources.

China, in the late 1970s, had an unbelievable population; close to one billion. With such an alarming number of people and limited resources, even in such a large nation, there had to be an even larger change. China’s one-child policy was a remedy to this problem, and helped Chinese citizens in many ways. Without the policy, China would have many economic problems and serves all of China with its rules. China’s one-child policy was an excellent idea for China and its people because of the evidence that suggests that it will keep population in-check in the future, that it creates a society with less gender standards and more equality, and higher intelligence rates among children.