One Child Policy: The Liberty And Pursuit Of Freedom

In 1980 the Chinese government became intently terrified of the current population of their country. China housed over 950 million citizens and growing. To stop the increasing rates of fertility the government created a proposal to keep citizenry rates down. The one-child policy stated that every household of china could only give birth to one child. The conspiracy of the policy has said to have had positive and negative out views of the only child. In final analysis the making of the one-child policy left China prosperous in educational value, conserving land as well as pollution and limiting the overdevelopment of citizenry.

Americans have the fond of saying "It's a free country" but for it to be a free country it has it's gains and losses. Our so called free country has its costs. In order for it to be "free" most of our men go into war and fight for our freedom. Some of its gains is the Bill of Rights. Freedom isn't completely free.

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.

America has both safety and freedom. Other countries have one of the two. Others have neither. Other nations are barely hanging on to life, because of restrictions or lack thereof. As H.L. Mencken wrote, “The average man does does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe”; he is correct in his statement. For example, there are laws concerning gun safety, and security precautions put in place after the September eleventh attacks; therefore, people would want safety more than they would want freedom.

With the One Child Policy, families were either forced to put their children up for adoption or were forced to have an abortion. Sometimes, people even put their children up for adoption because of their gender. “In the beginning when the policy came around in 1980, at that time they did not have scanning machines that could determine the gender of the fetus at an early stage, so people who delivered girls, for example, and wanted to keep their quota for that one boy — because if you used up your quota for a girl and then you gave birth to another girl and you would lose that — so people would either abandon their daughters or there would be infanticide, or they would give them away…”(NPR). The Chinese thought that having sons was the way

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 policy began in the early 1976. Mao’s government began to support the control of family size. Also, Mao started convincing the families to have fewer children. Then Mao Zedong died. Deng Xiaoping led the government and made the one child policy. The program was officially begun in 1979. Now recently the Chinese government have changed it to a two child policy. The Chinese population law should be abolished because it’s violating human rights, it is creating an "invisible" generation, and it is creating an imbalance in the population.

A common natural biological instinct people have is protect their young because the children represent the future of the society. However there are some cultures that do practice human sacrifice and would even use children. These ritualistic killings would be done if there was a natural disaster or a famine as a way to please the gods. For example, according to John Roach of NBC News, the Incas children would be the sacrificial offerings to their gods because they believed to be pure and more physically healthy. Before they were sacrificed, they were well dressed and feed before they were taken to the mountain tops burial sites to be strangled, hit in the head or being left die from exposure (Roach). Another Native Tribe is Aztec was reported

For years, the One-Child Policy were unevenly and unfairly challenged the female’s reproductive right. During the One-Child Policy, with the limitation for only one child, in some cases, women feel that their reproductive organs are owned by the country, as they no longer have sovereignty over their bodies (Jaffery). Under the One-Child Policy, the Chinese government implement many methods to regulate fertility, including forced abortions on women who become pregnant with a second child, sterilization to prevent accidental pregnancies and the threat of heavy fine and unemployment. Some of the methods make women think they have no choice on how many babies they want and their fertility are remain under the control of the government. According

In Susan Greenhalgh’s paper, “Missile science, Population science: The Origins of China’s one-child policy, China’s demographers believed that the future population growth for a one hundred year period between 1980 to 2080 was not sustainable (Greenhalgh, 2005). It was recorded that in 1950 that the rate of population growth in China was 1.9 percent each year ("BBC - GCSE Bitesize: Case study: China", 2014). In 1949 and for the next ten years, China saw a steady increase in the birth rate at a rate of approximately 2 percent. Whereas, the mortality rate saw a sharp decline at a rate of 3 to 5 percent over the next decade, starting from 1951 (Coale, 1983). These facts may not seem alarming,

China has had the new population control for almost 36 years, composed by the one-child policy and prohibited excess reproduction. The birth control plan has received praise on reducing the population but also received criticism over the late 20th century. In 1979, couples were forced to pledge not to give second birth or bear any more children (Feng, 2014). From 1979 to 2015, while population growth rate has reduced substantially, this implementation has been tremendously restructured how Chinese families value family structure, child preferences, marriage, parenting, living arrangements, and eldercare. This one child policy has transformed into a problematic system for the Chinese family to maintain their traditional value, and also introduced new problems to the family.

The Chinese One-Child policy was first introduced between 1978 and 1980 impacting the whole country as a national population policy. The policy was introduced because of the increase fertility rate that was encouraged by the government during the period of 1950 and 1960s. After an increase of childbirth in China, the government introduced a family planning policy allowing Chinese couples to have only one child. However, some exceptions were allowed according to the circumstances of the couple in having only a girl, for example. This dramatic change on Chinese families that was brought by the new national policy introduced a different family structure in rural, and especially urban areas in China as well as consequences on the kinship structure and terms.

In this essay, the One Child Policy and the effects explored in the book The Dark Road by Ma Jian will be discussed. The book’s central theme is the One Child Policy. Throughout the book, it is portrayed in a negative light. The physical and psychological impact is often talked about. It’s set in a rural town in China. The main characters are a couple, with the husband being a descendant of Confucius, who lives by his ancestor’s values and beliefs. To avoid being caught by family planning officers, they escape the town and live on a boat instead. In the novel, Ma Jian explores people’s feelings toward the One Child Policy and the Communist Party, Meili’s feeling towards her husband’s desire for a son, and both Meili and Kongzi’s

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