Reproductive Rights

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.

There has been a long history of China’s one child policy, since it was first introduces in 1979 by a Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping (Rosenberg n.p). The law was meant to be temporary and used to control the population; however it is still in use today (Rosenberg n.p). When the policy was first enforced, it only

Due to the one-child policy there are many serious human rights infractions. Since the policy has been in effect, there have been more than 400 million prevented births ("China:

In 1979, China decided to establish a one child policy which states that couples are only allowed to have one child, unless they meet certain exceptions[1].In order to understand what social impacts the one child policy has created in China it important to evaluate the history of this law. China’s decision to implement a Child policy has caused possible corruption, an abuse of women’s rights, has led to high rates of female feticide, has created a gender ratio problem for China, and has led to specific problems associated with both the elderly and younger generation. Finally, an assessment of why China’s one child policy is important to the United States allows for a full evaluation of the policy.

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

In China there policy for birth control is a state policy and they must sustain it with no questions asked. The birth control system is a system that is assemble for punishment . The president of Women’s Rights without frontiers said “ Characterising this latest modifications abandoning the one-child policy misleading. Women are arrested if they refuse to have an abortion than it is is forced on them . The policy for China’s One Child Policy was made up on September 25, 1980.

First of all, China’s population law should be abolished because it is violating human rights. In the article China’s Child Policy it stated that “you have no decision in your own family.” This shows that China is only letting them have two children. China’s population law is violating human rights because it is not letting them choose how many children the parents have. The parents should choose how many children they want to have not the government.

According to data from The World Bank, the birth rate in china is 1.7 per every woman, which shows that is not accomplishing the one child per couple purpose it was created for. This just proves that in china almost 2 kids are being born per every couple. The fact is that they can not keep them in any legal way; therefore, all the women suffering because of this policy is not being worth at all because it is just causing many people’s rights to be violated with not reason. In addition, it is extremely unfair for the kids to deny the right knowing what it is like to have a sibling. Now, that many Chinese families will have two children, kids will have someone to play with them and to have a companion while

This article discusses how the one child policy has changed China’s development. The policy was implemented in 1979, to get in control of the population growth as quickly as possible. It was determined that without a decline in fertility, China’s economy would not have been able to grow by 7-8% a year over the past decade. Some believe that China overreacted and that the fertility rate could have been lowered without the policy. Other effects of the policy are women tend to marry men that are several years older than them, and there are fewer women because China has the tradition of favoring boys.

“In order to stabilize the world’s population,” wrote Jacques Yves Cousteau “350,000 must be eliminated per day.” This powerfully haunting statement has been regulated and reinforced in China, by their government, since 1979. Although Chinese officials don’t eradicate nearly even a quarter as many lives daily, their One Child Law does put a reasonable dent into the lives that are brought into the world we live in. China’s law, as cold and cruel as it may seem to some, does serve a definitive purpose; to control their population.

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

While China has been impacted with a one-child policy, this has not only caused dysfunction in the family, but also has created functional improvements as well; in terms of taking control over the country’s population crisis. In the 1970’s China upgraded women statuses by implementing a forcible policy for all women to obey, called the one-child policy which allows some women to give birth to only one child; and no more or strict consequences would be enforced and applied. This policy was designed to educate women, on the importance of a one-child family; in order to reduce the overwhelming population in China. By doing this China in turn would give the families money for adhering to the rules set forth, by abiding to their wishes and accepting a certification and cash rewards; just for maintaining stability on not placing a cash levy on the state for births. Women that became pregnant after the first child was conceived would soon be asked to part with the unborn, by that of terminating the birthing of that new addition (or child); if a one-child certificate was in the hand of the pregnant mother to be. "If she refuses she loses her bonus, will be left out of the next wage increase, and will suffer scorn by her co-workers" (Lindsey, 2011, pg. 147).

China has been experiencing a dramatic demographic transition since 1979 when the one-child policy was implemented. Due to the concern that population growth can pose a threat to China’s economic development not only in the short-term but over the long-term as well, the Chinese government adopted the strict birth control program that every Chinese family can only have one child, though some exceptions were made. Regulations for ethnic minority families were more flexible that they were allowed to have their second child. Furthermore, the policy was unevenly enforced. The birth control program was found more effectively in urban China, where supervision systems are more complete and people are more willing to limit their family sizes, than in rural areas, which were characterized by strong traditional agrarian needs. In general, the one-child policy hit the goal that China’s both fertility rate and birth rate were found decreasing year by year. However, alongside the declining fertility rate, new problems emerge, especially the increased share of the aged population relative to the total population.

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 the 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.

Those that are largely negatively affected by the one-child policy are the mothers/wives, fathers and the general peasantry (whom are both maternal and paternal however we will assume their concerns differ). Assuming that China’s policy making on population control was a much more flexible and openly debatable issue, these three segments of society are likely to collectively act against the formulation of the one-child policy to protect their social rights. Social sciences were banished from the Chinese society since the progression of Mao-ism from the onset of the Cultural Revolution[10] so arguing for their social rights would be an unfathomable task.