The Two-Child Policy In China

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

Overpopulation is not an issue many people in developing countries face at this point in time. Put simply, overpopulation is “the condition of having a population so dense that it causes environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash” (Merriam-Webster). It should not be taken lightly because it cannot be reversed in a short time period. Changes must be made gradually so that future generations do not suffer consequences that current generations have place upon them. It will be important to think about this theme in the future because of the issues it may bring up, namely food shortages or lack of other natural resources humans need to survive.

In conclusion, the standard of living and the economy of China before the one-child policy was not better off after the policy was enforced and to some extent, it can be said that the policy helped steer the economy of China in the desired direction, considering how far she has come within the world today. The disadvantages of overpopulation are numerous and some of it’s compound problems immeasurable. China before the one-child policy had just cause to view overpopulation as a serious threat. The one-child policy provided China with a way to prevent the impending population explosion. At the time, it was the only solution that had concrete evidence it would actually work at controlling the rate of population growth based on the limitations

China’s One Child Policy is said to have created a generation of ‘Little Emperors’. Assess the consequences of most families having only one or two children.

Over population has been a global issue for decades. Medical advances have made it possible for people to live longer and have multiple births, which are just some of the factors contributing to this social problem. Many countries have attempted to battle this issue, but none as intensely as China. China allows the government to have full control over family planning to help reduce the population. In 1979 China created a policy called the "One Child Law" which limits couples to only one child. Although the Chinese government hopes to curb the population boom and benefit society, the One Child Policy has morally questionable results, negative impacts on Chinese society, which should be changed.

China has had a one child policy since 1980. The one child policy limits the fertility rate that each woman can have only one child in efforts to cut down the population, and undo what Mao Zedong did to early China. Mao’s goal was to make China the next superpower nation by encouraging people to have many children. Unfortunately, Mao did not know that he was moving China backwards with this kind of thinking. In 1949 after a long civil war over who controlled China, Mao Zedong took control of the newly communist country. Mao wanted China to become a bigger country with a stronger economy so he encouraged people to have more and more children. At the same time, Mao wanted more people to work in the factories and move to the cities. Many problems occurred in this process because too many people moved to the cities and there wasn't enough farmers for their new growing population and economy. Unfortunately, a huge famine occurred, and an estimated 30 million people starved to death as a result. After this disaster, Mao changed his beliefs and then decided he wanted people to stop having more than one child. By 1980 China's population had almost reached 1 billion, and the communist leaders feared that their population was growing too fast. The most logical solution was the one child policy. So, was China’s one child policy a compatible solution to their population problems?

China's one child policy was first announced in 1979. This policy was created to help with china's rapid population growth. Although the policy was suppose to help, the policy showed discrimination against females, and to who may have been aborted, abandoned, or unregistered. If the policy is discriminating against a certain group, that violates human rights. Human rights is a right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person, and if women are forced abortions, violated, and children are taken away from homes, that violates human rights.

The Chinese government says that the policy prevented 400 million births, but demographers are pretty skeptical. In fact, it’s looking more and more like the one child policy was completely unnecessary. Well the biggest drop in China’s birth rate happened before the one child policy. IN 1970 , the government started running a propaganda campaign to encourage people to get married later and have fewer children. Family size dropped by half in just 10 years. Researchers now think that the birth rate would have continued to drop naturally as China’s economy improved. That was even confirmed by a secret government experiment. So are officials changing the one-child policy now because it’s clear it’s not necessary? well, there changing it because the one child policy is causing a demographic disaster. China is now dealing with not having enough young workers to support the elderly. Due to the preference for boys over girls, there are now 30 million more men than women. so how is the one child policy enforced anyway?it s unevenly implemented through a massive bureaucracy quotas are set by the central government and enforced by local family planning commissions.So what happened to people who violet the

Holliday reports on how China’s economy would be better if they go rid of the one- child policy. If there was a high working population than the economy of China would increase, the only way to raise the population is to loosen the reigns of the one- child policy, and allow couples to have a second child. A potentially better economy is an important drive for the government to allow having a second child.

While it seems somewhat reasonable for a government to encourage family planning, and to provide the population with access to birth control, it seems a bit out of line for them to ask a family to have only one child. The pressure of only having one child, in combination with a cultural favoritism toward males is what makes the one-child policy so gravely concerning. It is clear that the excess female infant mortality is directly attributable to the birth-control policy, which caused the pre-existing prevalence of son preference to escalate. In China, son preference is the product of ingrained social norms. Girls and women still occupy a lower social status in society (Zilberberg, 2007). The one-child policy requires authorization for each birth- children are required to be reported to receive documentation that allows them to be part of society- to attend school, to hold a job in adulthood, and to marry. Women are consistently

In 1976,Mao Zedong died,and his eventual successor,Deng Xiaoping led a government which opted to make the “two child policy.”a”one child policy.The program was officially begun in 1979.The program was applied much more regularly and harshly in urban as compared to rural areas of china. The program was applied because china had to many people.China’s Population Law should be abolished because it violates human rights, creates an “invisible” generation, and harms the economy.

Even before a book becomes a book, they are words first. Many societies believe in masculine and feminine words and symbols. The Chinese society also portrays women as being negative. For well over thousands of years, females have held a lower status in Chinese households and society, you can see this in their writings and laws. The China’s One-child policy is a population control policy which prevented 400 million births, since the 1980’s. Yet the policy has numerous flaws that make the policy bias towards women. In 2007, China received criticize when they allowed more than half of the China’s population to have another child if their first one was a female. The biggest criticize China has received was the abolition rate from parents, who

The One-Child Policy is a policy created in 1979, as an effort to reduce the population during a time when the Chinese population growth was increasing rapidly, needed a solution to decrease the population, and this policy would specifically mandate that all the Chinese couples would only be allowed to have one child. Since the policy was introduced and implemented, it created social issues in China, which were not anticipated when in the creation process. This policy has created a gender imbalance in favor of men from a deep-rooted culture preference of having a son. Chinese culture has a son preference for several reasons consisting of a labor incentive, religious rituals, property inheritance, and old-age security-related. Following the

The world’s population is rising rapidly from seven billion to the estimated nine billion in 2050 (Ellis, Overpopulation is Not the Problem). Every human being adds stress to the Earth’s resources. Numerous places like Africa and China maintain a copious amount starvation and poverty. There are days when people go without food, water, or shelter. There is even such happening in the United States. In such places, it is difficult to find contraception, or birth control, which leads to unplanned pregnancies. These situations are rooted down to overpopulation, which is when there are too many humans. However, there is a multitude of ways to reverse such negative effects. Population control is a