Figuring out a population control policy for the United States is a very difficult task. If I were a part of the U.S. Government, I would have a hard time deciding what is morally right to implement as a population control policy. However, if I was creating a law to help control U.S. population, my ideal policy would include incentives from the government to wait to have children and intense family-planning education programs starting as early as in elementary school. The first part of my population control policy would be about giving monetary incentives to people who wait to have children until they are 30. This would entail the federal government giving $5,000 to anyone who waited until they were 30 to have children. Now, this means for couples, that the women has to wait until she is 30 to have children. If a male is single but fathers a child and is 30 or older, he would be eligible to receive the $5,000 dollars. This would just be a one time monetary incentives; it would be not be $5,000 per child. By waiting to have children until 30 years old, the amount of time women can get pregnant is much less compared to having a child at 18. A young woman having a baby at 18 leaves her with a solid twenty-five years before she hits menopause. That allows for time to have multiple more children. On the other hand, waiting until 30 years old, would only leave women with roughly fifteen years before hitting menopause--a much less significant amount of time to have multiple
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
Some argue that the policy is beneficial to sustain the economy, society, population, resources and the environment. About four hundred million births have been prevented with the policy helping with the population problem (Wan n.p). Pollution and a lack of resources are some of the reason that people think the one child policy is necessary. Another reason that people think the policy is necessary is if the population continues to grow it would be harder for people to find food, causing people to starve. People see the policy as a good thing because it is helping the government by not using as many resources.
Pro-choice has been a major topic ever since the women’s movements started in the early 1970’s, a question sometimes asked is that, if part of the population are so pro-life and worry about protecting a fetus, how come when the child is conceived they suddenly bash at you for having that unwanted child anyways, and that is hypocritical. In this essay, details include would be why people choose to be pro-choice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the battle for reproductive justice for women and their right to make decisions for their body, advocates that are pro-choice, proposals for a pro-choice government, and Tomi Lahren being fired for stating she was pro-choice.
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.
First reason, the number of government supported children is enormous, and with a projected baby boom on its way after the previous recession. To fix that the government could put in place laws restricting the number of children a family can have. The government could either restrict a family’s number of children based on total income. As in low class to middle low class families have one or two children. Where at the same time the high class, and middle high class families might have two to four children. Or the government could put in a law for everyone. They could much like china did and only allow one child to be born. Or base it off of the number of parents raising the children. One parent, one child, or two parents, to two children. Instead of putting laws on childbirth, they
For hundreds of years, women have been fighting for one basic thing; women want to be equals and have the rights to their lives and bodies. Women have been fighting for the right to own property, to vote, to have equal pay and to have reproductive rights. While each has been a struggle, reproductive rights are one of the most controversial, argued topics. It is more widely accepted for men to walk away from a pregnancy, but women do not have the same option without being hassled at every turn. Whether agreed on morally or not, a woman should have a choice in having an abortion or carrying to the point of viability, meaning when a fetus can sustain life outside the womb.
I picked a ridiculously silly subject title for this rather serious post (that is one of the best and funniest Mean Girls quote though). On a more serious note now, I believe that contraceptions and empowerment of women will help with slow the continued population growth. Sex is a natural act for people all over the world. Sadly, not all women are not educated about contraceptions, do not have access to contraceptions, not allowed to use contraceptions and some do not support the use of contraceptions (which is their right). The textbook discusses the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) which "focused on individual rights, especially women's rights, including their right to make reproductive decisions" (410). The conference also discusses the important of educating women and educated women typically engage in safe sex and have more access to family-planning methods. Contraceptions and family-planning is still a prominent topic today in the United States; however, women typically in the middle east and third world countries have no real access to these preventions at all. According to a New York Times article on birth control by Nicholas Christof, "women in Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Somalia, East Timor and Ugana all have six or more child each, the U.N. says. In rural Africa, I've come across women who have never heard of birth control. According to estimates from the Guttmacher Institute, a respected
Just think about a human race free of genetic disease where everyone is intelligent and where society and technology advance at staggering rates. This is the future that is envisioned by those who advocate eugenics. Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by selection of parents based on their inherited characteristics (Hartl). The idea was first discussed by Sir Francis Galton in the 1880’s, but was widely unaccepted by people at first due to fear that it would take away their basic human rights and be misused (Hartl). In the early 20th century, eugenics was a very popular and widespread idea in the United States and there were laws created to encourage certain people to have children, while discouraging others from procreating (Morris 66). The main reason eugenics has fell into such disfavor is because the Nazis cited it as the reason for the Holocaust (Morris 66). The use of eugenics by the Nazis can be compared to the use Islam by ISIS, or the use of Christianity by the Westboro Baptist Church. It is a concept that can be misused based on interpretation and extremism. Eugenics itself is just an idea to improve the human race by selective breeding, not by killing millions. Forms of eugenics should be implemented in society because they eliminate genetic diseases and problems, spread favorable traits and attributes, create a more intelligent and less flawed society, and help advance the human race as a whole.
In order to solve this issue our country has developed a strategic plan. According to the U.S Census Bureau, approximately 8 billion people are in this planet, with about one million arriving every five days. The United Nations have estimated that the population at the end of the century will be near eleven billion. If this occurs, our country and the entire planet will suffer. Our country has developed a plan which will help not only our country to stay away from overpopulating but the world as a whole. By doing so our resources and economy will better, and we will be able to assist our people with health insurance and welfare. Our three step plan includes dealing with hunger and food production, next unemployment, and last contraception, family planning, and
In the mid twentieth century, Margaret Sanger started a movement to make birth control more accessible so women could control the size of their families. Birth control is critical for women’s rights, they can't have their place in society if they are at having babies constantly. Smaller families benefit the kids because if the parents have only a few children, they can afford to provide those children with the things they need to succeed in life. Parents with large families would not have the capacity to give their kids those luxuries.
Philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, “Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence, and famine as permanent features of human life.” This quote foreshadows the effects of passing a bill to leave birth control coverage up to employers. If birth control isn’t covered by insurance companies it will lead to more teenage pregnancies, a higher dropout rate, abortion rates rising, resulting in a lesser educated and more overpopulated country. According to Planned Parenthood (2017), ninety-nine percent of all sexually active women have used birth control at some point, meaning it is a serious issue.
In October 12, 1999, the world's population has reached to 6 billion people. about only 12 years later (October 31, 2011) the world has gone up to 7 billion. Many people on the planet are worried about the world population going too high. They fear that too many people would result in starvation and quick depletion of resources. Some people believe that we should have some type of law that would limit the number of children we can have in each family. Something similar has come true in China about 30 years ago. In September 25, 1980, China's One-Child Policy has been created. This policy keeps parents from having more than one baby with the exception of twins, triplets, quadruplets, and so on. Parents may also have
How can governments try to reduce fertility rates without going the route of China’s one (or two) child policy?
The one-child policy is a population control policy that was introduced in 1979 to relive social, economic, and environmental problems in China. At the time the growth rate of China’s population was very high and the main purpose of the policy was to limit the large family units in the country to one child each. After implementing the policy, the government hoped to see reduction in the growth rate of its enormous population. Sometimes couples can have a second child only if their first was a girl or had disabilities. As of today, China’s government believes that their one-child policy will result in a wealthier, healthier
The world’s population today is around 7.5 billion people, and I don’t think it will stop growing any time soon. Scientist predict that by 2050 there will be around 9 billion people living on earth. A solution to this is contraceptives. We need to make them more affordable and accessible for everyone and everywhere in order to reduce population