Population Control

Population Growth is an issue that exists in today’s world that needs to be confronted before it becomes out of hand. The population itself has reached overwhelming numbers making it a problem that could turn to be dangerous. The amount of humans that the earth can support or the carrying capacity is slowly rising but at a much slower rate than the population growth rate. The increasing growth rate has its negative effects environmentally, agriculturally, socially, and economically and also has its positive effects nationally, and economically. The government is brainstorming and trying to come up with ways to decrease

Over population is an extremely serious problem facing the world today. According to an article from Newsweek in Oct. 2009 called “Where do babies come from?”, today’s world population has reached over 6.6 billion people. Also the article mentioned that in 2009 57.4% of all new born babies who were born this year came from Asia alone. This is an issue because over population can lead to hasty consumption of resources. China who has one of the largest population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, has taken a stance against over population.

Another consequence of China's one-child policy is that the male to female ratio in China has been seriously unbalanced since the policy's introduction. In 1992, Chinese birth statistics indicated the proportion of boys to girls was 118.5 to 100. (Richards 7) This equates to 36 million more males than females at present and a predicted surplus of 70 million single males by the end of the century as a result. (Richards 7) As this enhances the success of the policy it is also having serious consequences, such as the widespread abduction of women. This trade is worth over a billion dollars a year and the problem is likely to escalate as men find it increasingly hard to find a wife. Although women are still

1a. China and Japan are both industrialized countries where population is decreasing; however, they are both decreasing due to different social, economic, or political factors. With 1.33 billion people, China has been one of the world’s most populous countries, however due to the overpopulation crisis; it caused implications and strain upon the country’s energy and resources. This called for the government attention to fix the issue of overpopulation by developing the “one-child policy” which limits couples to having only one child each. The overall outcome of the policy was to reduce population growth, increase economic growth, limit poverty, and to create better health for the citizens of China. Governments

“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.

After the one child policy institute, “infant girls have become more likely to die than boys because more families killing their daughters” (Parkinson). Because the firstborn male child is meaningful in Chinese traditional culture, particularly in rural areas even today, as sons can inherit the family name and property from elders. Due to losing of girls. China became the most gender-imbalanced country. According to the report, “The sex ratio at birth (between male and female births) in mainland China reached 117:100 and remained steady between 2000 and 2013, substantially higher than the natural baseline, which ranges between 103:100 and 107:100”(Chen). The sex imbalance will cause a lot of Chinese men hard to find a wife, especially in remote rural

The world is growing at an extremely fast rate which will lead to an unhealthy place for people to live in. If current trends persist, there will be 2.5 billion more people on the planet by mid-century. It will be difficult to feed that many people. There are many problems with population growth and the laws associated with it, but there are also ways to counteract these issues. By spreading awareness, creating laws, and more family planning we can prevent population from growing out of control.

This paper will describe China’s economy and general standard of living before the introduction of the one-child policy, discuss the possible disadvantages of overpopulation in a country and suggest that overpopulation was seen as a huge threat that

Over population has been a global issue for decades. Many countries have attempted to battle this issue, but none as intensely as China. One Child Policy is a population control policy implemented by the People’s Republic of China .The One Child Policy is seen as being one of the most significant and talked about social policies ever implemented in the world and most importantly China. Although the One Child Policy seems like an extremely harsh and a controversial method, China’s One Child Policy has been proven to have a great effect on the lives of nearly a quarter of the world’s population for a quarter of a century (Hesketh). The purpose of the One Child Policy was to give China a solution to help the economy grow quickly and to gain a

After the one-child policy instituted, it brings both advantages and disadvantages to China. The most significant advantage of the one-child policy is that the policy had successfully controlled the population growth. According to the report, “Since the one-child policy is beginning, it has prevented over 400 million births and helped to ease the overpopulation problem” (Pros and Cons). The

After a large increase in population, the Chinese government decided to step in and create the one-child policy. To enforce their new policy, the government issued high taxes and fines for couples who violated the policy. If a couple’s first child is a girl, they can request to have another child but only if it has been five years and they have been considered eligible. That also contributes to the culture’s preference for male offspring. Male offspring can carry on the family name so to a culture that holds strong family values it is ideal to have a son. This want for male children is causing China many problems. China is now facing a gender gap that has started to affect the Chinese economy. By the year 2035, twenty percent of China’s population will be over the age of 65. That is twenty percent of the workforce gone, with no one to replace them. Leaving all the economic pressure on the younger

The one child policy has a lot of exceptions and ethnic minorities do not have to follow this law. Steep fines would be given out to families that broke the law. Also if their first child was a girl they were allowed to have another child. There isn't any exact numbers showing how this law has affected the population growth directly. There's not a lot of ways to fix this problem so I feel like this has to be a positive solution to fixing this problem. The fertility rate in China has fallen from 2.8 births per woman in 1979 to 1.5 in 2010.

In the article “How China’s one child Law Backfired on men” it states the combination of China’s one child policy and the advent of sonograms has meant that families who preferred a son could get what they wanted, aborting unwanted girls” (“How china’s one child law backfired on men”). This mens, since it was always favored to have a boy that since most people are aborting their baby girls and then getting a bot, more people in China are men. Most families wanted a boy because in the Chinese culture the man usually takes care of the parents when they get old, and the women helps to take care of her husband’s parents. Naturally parents want to have care when they get old wanting a boy instead of a girl so when families were only allowed to have one child the girl was abandoned and not the boy, which led to an imbalance of population. The baby girls in China that get abandoned usually die or get adopted and move out of China before reaching adulthood. Having an imbalance of population resulted in many men in China not ever having a chance of marrying. Women in China have almost no work to do in order to get married but the men have it different. If many men in China there will be less couples having babies which means ways less people every generation. The men magnets or women in China are a result of the imbalance of population that led from China’s one child

China’s population currently stands at 1.357 billion people. It is the most populous country in the world and it is only increasing. The Chinese government has spent more than 40 years trying to slow their population growth. They have done so through their controversial one child policy. There is no denying that China’s one child policy changed the lives of Chinese citizens when it the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] in 1979 as a way of controlling population. Under Mao, the government encouraged families to have as many children as possible, believing that a strong nation grew out of a large population. By 1976, the population grew from 540 million people in 1949 to 940 million. The rapid increase in population stretched the resources that the CCP could provide to the people. The government believed that a population control policy was the only way they prevent the population from experiencing another dramatic increase in size . The CCP hoped that the policy would alleviate some of the social and economic pressure an increasing population created, and the policy has worked. According to data collected by the World Bank, China’s birth rate has fallen from 2.63 in 1980 to 1.217 as of 2014, preventing an estimate two-hundred to four-hundred million births . For all its intended benefits, the one child policy has also brought many unintended consequences, both harmful and beneficial; and these consequences have disproportionately affect girl and women more than boys and men. The

A few centuries ago, the earth had a lot less inhabitants than it does today. This progression is attributed to advancements in technology and health care. However, as time passed this explosive growth began to work against us, and is now associated as a destructive force, which is currently plaguing the planet. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the fact that, overpopulation is not the primary cause of our modern day predicaments, but is merely a tributary to the actual source. Environmental, economic, agricultural and political factors are some of the main incipient issues, which have thus been ignored, and have resulted in the myth called overpopulation. The negative repercussions of these aspects will be examined, along with a comprehensive study into future populace.