Overpopulation In China

What is overpopulation? Overpopulation has been defined as a situation where the number of people in an environment exhausts all available resources weakening its needed support. (Morse &Mosher) For years there have been reports of how many people are expected to live on earth by the year 2050, 2075, and so on. However, the question remains as to whether everyone will have a secured spot. Today, in 2017 there have been plenty of fights with the scarcity of resources, where overpopulation becomes the topic of conversation. However, to solve this issue the option of abortion was brought to the forefront by scientists and advocates such as Dan Savage who mentioned that abortion should be mandatory for the next 30 years in or to control the

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

But how does China try to carry out its one-child policy? The techniques to enforce the one-child family are sometimes very cruel and violate human rights. First of all, families need an authorization to have a baby. That means that when they decide to have a baby, they first have to get an official authorization to have a child. To learn about unauthorized pregnancies, Chinese officials pay informants to report them pregnancies of women. These informants can be neighbors, friends, or even family. This method is comparable to what the East German “Stasi” did in former times. Chinese people cannot trust anybody, because they can be reported to the officials. Women are also only allowed to have children when they are married. Because of this law, China passed another law that says that women are only allowed to marry with the age of 23. That means that women officially are allowed to have a child with 23 years. That led to an increase of the average age of first birth from 20.8 years (1970s) to 23.6 years (1998). Another method to enforce the one-child policy is sterilizations. All women who gave birth to three

In this world where people can acquire anything they need or want, we have to wonder, “Is the government controlling us?” Both the governments in A Brave New World and in the United States of America offer birth control pills and have abortion clinics that are available for everyone, thus making birth control pills and abortion operations very easy to acquire. Although both governments offer birth control pills and abortion clinics, A Brave New World’s government requires everyone to take the pills and immediately get an abortion when pregnant. This in turn shows us that A Brave New World’s government is controlling the population and the development of children. China is one of the few countries that currently have control of the

Women in today’s society have never known a time when contraceptive options were not available to them. As a general statement, acquiring some sort of contraceptives whether it is the pill, patch, condom, emergency contraception, or another of the many types of birth control is not difficult with the many options available to women today. However, backtrack to the early 1900’s and the story was completely different. In 1916, Margaret Sanger made contraceptive history by opening the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. The fight for birth control began. It was not until years later in 1960 that the birth control pill was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and since then many other varieties of birth control have made their way into the market (Kim & Wasik, 2011). Today, thanks to those like Margaret Sanger who fought for contraceptives, women and couples who wish to avoid pregnancy have more choices than ever before. (Egarter et al, 2013; Perry, 2015).

The world population is only growing. The U.N. predicts that from today’s 7.5 billion we will reach 9.3 billion by the year 2050. (World Population Prospects n.p) In New York Times author Nicholas Kristof’s article, The Birth Control Solution, Kristof attempts to promote family planning as a solution to many of the world’s problems. He will do this by giving examples that an out of control global population causes poverty, conflict, and environmental damage; and that family planning would be a cost effective solution.

Have you ever wonder if birth control laws everywhere were the same ? Well here in my paper i will explain to you the birth control laws in China are and the outcomes of everything.

According to the United States census, the world population is over 7 billion and a birth occurs every 8 seconds. China leads with well over 1.3 billion people. There are rural areas, in Africa that women have never heard of any form of birth control. In those areas, women have 6 or more children. According to the United nations report (2013), The world 's population is expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. There is already a lack of natural global resources. The environment is showing signs of misuse caused by humans. While, reproduction is a part of life and a human right. We as people need to work on preserving our natural resources, for the betterment of our future. And, birth control is a considered method in helping control our population. Birth control is also another way of helping developing countries due to lack of obstetric care, or countries that are disease, and poverty stricken.

All over the world, the human population fluctuates throughout each country due to several different factors. Some of the factors that can lead to an increase or decrease in population include industrialization, economic instability, poverty, laws, disease, resource destruction, sanitation, natural disasters, birth control, and access to education (Class notes). Although population decline is possible and relevant in some countries, the more important issue facing many countries today is overpopulation. Some over population problems include decreases in food sources, housing needs, land, increase in distribution problems, decrease in job availability, and poor health care environment (HowMany.org, 2014). One important question related to controlling

China began promoting the use of birth control and family planning with the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949. This was a great way to decrease the population

In 1979, China’s PRC (Peoples Republic of China) introduced a policy that continues to be one of the most controversial issues of its kind still today. The policy remains “Chinas One-Child Policy.” It was set into place with the end goal of controlling a spiraling growth in Chinas population. China consumes roughly 20% of the total world population, but remains having 13% arable land. About one tenth of Chinas land is contaminated. China’s ecological footprint has been on the rise for 15 years now, and has grown passes the United States giving it the largest ecological footprint in the world.

In 1948, China banned birth control and contraceptives because it wanted a larger population. In1930s-1960s, China’s population was growing faster than the food supply, which reached a population of more than 800 million in 1970s. In 1973, China started to promote birth control with the slogan, “Late, Long, Few” and introduced the one-child policy six years later. Forced abortion was the punishment to punish the ones who did not obey the policy and often, families chose to pay the local officials to “set them (the second child) free”. However, one-child policy is very

October 29, 2015, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) state-run news agency Xinhua announces the government’s plan to end the iconic one-child policy initiated by Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s, allowing up to two children per family. Originally implemented to preserve economic growth from an excessively fast-growing population, this new move marks a watershed in China’s situation, confronted to a low female-to-male ratio and an aging population. Yet, despite massive dissuasion campaigns, fines, and forced abortions, flaws in the enforcement of this policy have given way to many means of bypassing the law. Some hospitals in Southern China propose fertility drugs designed for multiple birth, that is having twins, triplets or quadruplets

Birth control is a topic that has been debated countless times due to differences in personal choice, geographical location, and religious beliefs. A common argument for those who are for birth control is because of overpopulation. China, for example, has promoted and recommended birth control as to counteract a big issue in their country, which is overpopulation. Recently, many other countries too have seen steady increases in their populations, and struggle to feed, house, and educate their citizens. China views birth control as an effective solution to overpopulation. Some citizens in several countries point out that there are children who are hungry each day and do not have enough food to survive. Birth control would help reduce the amount

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