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    turmoil because a famine fell upon the country due to overpopulation and citizens were dying daily in the countryside. His encouraging quote, “Of all things in the world, people are the most precious,” became a meaningless statement when China’s One-Child Policy was implemented in 1980 to control the population (Mao qtd. in Fitzpatrick). The government began spreading propaganda about the advantages the economy and women will have with the restriction on

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    In 1980 China announced a one child policy It basically means you can only have one child. If you were to break that policy you would be punished. Many woman have been sterilized or have had to pay a big fine because they have broken the policy. Was it worth it? I believe it may have helped a little since the population was so high but i don't think it was completely worth it. I think there were good and bad things about it like population control and it may have helped fertility reduction but it

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    no official policy in but the government’s condemned contraceptives and banned the import of some. As a result, the population of China doubled over the next few years. The population in China grew from 540 million in 1949 to 940 million in 1976. China`s One-Child policy was a temporary policy to control the population of China. The government feared over population. Beginning in 1970, citizens were encouraged to marry at later ages and have only two children. The Family Planning Policy was enforced

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    China 's One Child Policy

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    The one child policy in the Peoples Republic of China has recently been lifted to allowed families to freely have two children rather than one. This policy, introduced to China in the late 1970’s, was due to a massive baby boom which had taken place in the 1960’s. In the early to late 1950’s the Chinese government had encouraged its citizens to produce children at a rapid rate in the hope of building a larger work force (Managing Population Change Case Study: China). In order to counteract this boom

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    The One-Child policy is not being enforced like it would have been in ancient China. During the Qin Dynasty Laws were carried in a stricter manner. For example Qin Shi Huangdi killed Daoist and Confucian scholars the burned their books because they would not change their ideology. However, in modern days such an act would not be tolerated by anyone and now instead of killing the people who broke the rule they are forced to get an abortion or sterilization. This shows that the Chinese government

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    to make the decision to have children, as it is their responsibilities. Did China not believe this? Or did China not respect the God given rights as a human being? In the dictionary it defines rights as, something (as a power or privilege) to which one has a just or lawful claim, and the dictionary also define responsibilities

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    The Chinese One Child Policy As China is having an enormous economic expansion it is also facing many problems. One of the major problems people have become more and more concerned about is the country's population. At the dawn of this century there were some 426 million people living in China. Today the population is about 1.2 billion. About two-thirds of this 900 million increase was added within the last 50 years. In another word, the population has tripled since the People's Republic of China

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    China 's One Child Policy

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    China’s One Child policy is a policy that the Chinese government introduced in 1979 to try and solve the problem of overpopulation. The Policy’s main purpose was to make sure that China could support its large population with facilities such as healthcare, education, housing, good jobs and most importantly, food. The aim was to reduce poverty and to improve overall quality of life for the people. China’s one-child policy has led to unintended and negative consequences, such as a diminishing labor

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    China's One Child Policy Essay

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    living spaces (International Data Base). The Chinese government then implemented the one-child policy to slow their growing population. The one-child policy has prevailed effectively in slowing down the population growth, but it has caused great anguish among Chinese families. Matt Rosenberg explains how one of the problems facing China in recent years is overpopulation. The Chinese government needed to make a policy to cope with the growing numbers of Chinese citizens.

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    The one-child policy rule in China created huge controversy for many parents. The one-child policy rule was first implemented in 1979, and later diminished in 2015. 36% of the population felt the one-child policy was not a good idea because the families who were affected by the policy were not allowed to have more than one child, and if they did, they would face possible fines or they would just abort the extra child. China’s one-child policy was not a good idea because it limited families, who

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