Derek Saldivar
5/24/17
Period 4
Mr. Martin
I strongly agree with the rule that China has made to the One Child Policy. This rule can help change the overpopulation with humans, it could even open up more jobs for people in the future, the children that are being born will most likely have big social impacts as they grow older. China’s one child policy can help lower the population of people since we’re already overpopulated, and it’ll affect everyone in the future probably. This policy will also be able to help with the social impacts the future citizens will have from being an only child. If a child is born as an only child with this law, then they should be happy. They will eventually inherit everything without needing to share,
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China is still one of the most powerful nations in today’s world is facing one of the impactful major problems in the recent years which is overpopulation. China’s population growth has always been a huge problem. In China, all citizens are being told that they are limited to the number of children they could produce. The government created a policy called ‘’ One Child Policy’’. The full requirement for this policy is to completely control the amount of population growth in China, if China doesn’t start controlling the population growth, the China will suffer with their poor economy. The One Child Policy implemented in China to help combat the overpopulation is not the right way to take control over the population. This specific policy is affecting many women, forcing early abortion and also violations of human rights. It increases preference over males and even females, thus leading to way more bad health problems and abortion, punishing families with more than one …show more content…
China is the most populated country containing over 1.2 billion people. China’s full population growth has increased exponentially in the last few centuries, rising from around 65 million people in the early 1400s to 150 million in 1600 to 583 million in 1953 and precisely 1.2 billion today. To improve the population crisis in China, the whole government must implement the One Child Policy. China needs some kind of outrageous strategy to control their population and resources, this policy has three main objectives: to advocate delayed marriage and child pregnancy, to achieve fewer and healthier births to allow one child per couple. These true restrictions are intended to help reduce the strain on food and other political and natural resources. It’s unfortunate that this policy restricts only urban couples to one child and allows rural couples a second child if their first child is a girl. If families have children legally, they are subjected to extreme and harsh punishment including jail time and torture. Since the beginning of this time, females were always seen as being very inferior to males in any evolving society. The females ultimate duty was to have children and take proper care and shelter for
China's One Child Policy was a very bad idea and should not have been implemented at all. If Chinese couples want to have as many kids as they want then instead of averting birth China should have to adapt to the changes and support the families. China could branch out or expand land for farming needs to support the increase of
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.
China’s One Child Policy was founded in 1949, this policy was founded upon the idea that China’s population was growing at an exponential rate (Doc B). China had one of the largest growing populations at over 150 million every year and with a population density of over 104 people/sq. km in rural areas and in cities up to 22,350/sq. km (Pop. Den.). China’s One Child Policy focuses on lowering the fertility rate of women and in turn lowers the population and population density, this is done by limiting most of the Chinese society to only having one child. China’s One Child Policy was a good idea because it focused on academic achievement, lessened the load on the environment and lowers fertility rates in women which then in turn lowers the already crowded Chinese population.
The final reason that the one-child policy was a bad idea is because of the fact that China’s fertility rate was already decreasing and was one of the lowest rates compared to Brazil, South Korea, and Thailand in 1979 making the policy pointless and unnecessary. “The claim by the Chinese officials that the one child policy has helped avert over 400 million births simply cannot be substantiated by
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
China has one of the biggest populations in the world, and it will become a problem if untreated. China realised that it had a population problem and introduced its policy in 1980. China's one-child law: Was it a good plan? The one-child policy helped prevent millions of births, this may have saved china from a famine.
The one child policy was adopted to help improve economic, environment, and population problems in China. The policy was used to limits the number of children that couples can have. When , the law was introduced it was only supposed to help with the overpopulation but , it has caused many children to be left and abandoned. Although China has a population problem, the one child policy was not the right way to handle the situation.
The one-child policy was implemented in 1979 by the Chinese government (The Economist 3). Its original goal was to restrain the population growth from its expected goal of 1.4 billion to a maximum of 1.2 billion by the end of the century (Kane and Choi 992). The policy was created with little regard to the potential demographic or societal changes, but rather was a political and economic measure to control the abnormally high population growth (Feng et al. 84). China’s population was rapidly growing, but there was a severe shortage of natural
“Even before its inception, the one child policy was question for its necessity and its enormous social costs.”(Document B Fertility Rates) China’s One Child Policy was established in 1980 and is still in action today. The One Child Policy was put into action due to the rising population rates. There is a controversial question that has been posed, is China’s One Child Policy a good or bad idea? After all of the evidence that was gathered the One Child Policy in China is not a good idea but does have some positive effects.
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 1980 China’s One-Child Policy came into place. The population size/growth rate was an issue for China's leaders to address because the population was close to one billion increasing rapidly. Is China’s One-Child policy a good idea? China’s One-Child Policy was a bad idea because it was hurtful to females, unnecessary policy and worker/retiree imbalance.
The one child policy only hurt China more due to its lowering fertility rate prior to the policy. “China had already achieved a remarkable fertility reduction, halving the number of children per women from 5.8 in 1970 to 2.7 in 1979.” (Document B) The facts shown here show that the policy was not necessary. In addition, since the population was already going
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
The One-Child Policy has its pros and cons. It has benefited China as it reduced social problems, economic problems, environmental problems, and poverty. Of course, it has its downsides as well. This policy involves forced abortions and an increase in problems with family support. One must decide if the One-Child Policy is either necessary or a terrible idea. In my opinion, I honestly believe that the
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?