Christopher Giles
China’s One Child Police in A Nutshell
Thursday, May 4, 2016
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“It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up all together but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust,” Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus.
Last October, China ended its 35-year-old policy of restricting most urban families to one child. Commonly referred to as the "one-child" policy, the restrictions were actually a collection of rules that governed how many children married couples
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China’s one-child policy may have worked too well and its reversal may have come too late, according to demographers and economists (Clarke, A 2015).
The vast country of China. The world most populous country in the word. China’s population with well over one billion people, and making up 18.72 percent of the total world population. China, the largest nation in the world has had major challenges with controlling the world’s largest population. China’s population was simply out of control. In the face of major moral and social hurdles and scrutiny addressing human rights and population control, the world watched as China attempted to address its high population levels. Unfortunately, China’s approach to addressing population control to the rest of the world seemed cruel and unreasonable violating human rights. The one-child policy, official program initiated in the late 1970s and early ’80s by the Central Government of China, the purpose of which was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. The rationale for implementing the policy was to reduce the growth rate of China’s enormous population.
Establishment and implementation
The establishment and implementation of China’s One Child Policy embarked on intense effort to address population control. Promoting birth control and family planning in 1949 the People’s Republic failed to control the growth of China’s population due to sporadic and voluntary participation
In countries without a forceful and costly policy like China’s, birth rates have declined with similar trajectories and magnitude." This evidence supports the claim that the one-child policy was a bad policy because it didn't have any notable effects on China's fertility rate. The one-child policy was completely unnecessary because it did not make any positive changes. If China had never implemented the one-child policy and instead tried to figure out what other countries such as Brazil, South Korea, and Thailand did to get their fertility rates so low, their fertility rates would most likely be right where they want it at. This is how China's one-child policy had no notable impact on their fertility rate, and why it was an unnecessary policy to
China’s One-Child Policy has been a controversial topic since its implementation back in 1979. Forcing families to have only one child has caused major repercussions that have only been magnified with each generation. In the past thirty years, major unforeseen problems have arisen. The policy had appeared to be a viable solution to curb China’s massive population before it was put into effect, but now the problems with the policy clearly overshadow the benefits. When China faced the problem of a swelling population, rapidly approaching one billion (Doc A), the One-Child Policy appeared to be a good idea.
China’s One-Child Policy was a bad decision because it disrupted the traditional family ratio, disturbed the balance of the economy, and had drastic social costs for
Recently, the policy has been removed and many have wondered if it was ever a good idea in the first place. The one child policy was a bad idea because it was unneeded, caused problems for children growing up, and made it hard for children to support their families. China's one child policy was an unneeded rule that did not change much. In 1970, China's birth rate was at a sizable 5.8 births per woman. In 1979, that had been reduced to 2.7 births per woman (Document B).
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
In Chinese society they try keeping the world a balance and equality to women and their kids. A world full of all men and you won’t be able to see any female, that’s what’s happening in china right now because of the one child-policy. Can you imagine what’s going to happen when Chinese culture is destroyed because of males taking over and reducing female gender, more crime, and also the most important thing would be war going one. The one child-policy should not exist because reduction of female gender can cause culture affect and economic wise and violating social equality. In 1964, the first national family planning to oversee china’s fertility reduction programs, which focused on urban areas with modern medical facilities and access to
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
In 1979, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the one child policy. This was part of the family planning policy to help control China’s growing population. This policy limited a couple, of a man and a woman, to only one child. Fines, pressures to abort a pregnancy, forced sterilization accompanied second or unwanted pregnancies. Although many think the one child policy was a law, it surprisingly was not. It was a policy enforced by the system of punishments. The punishments of disregarding the policy included being fined a great deal of money, demotion, and discharge from work. China’s government was inhumane in enforcing the policy.
“The government [then] reversed course and launched a campaign promoting birth control”(Soniak 1). Rules The one-child policy began in 1979, but not all of china was required to follow this law. “The policy applies to urban married couples who are part of the nations Han ethnic majority” (Soniak 1). For certain groups
The one-child policy is a population control policy that was introduced in 1979 to relive social, economic, and environmental problems in China. At the time the growth rate of China’s population was very high and the main purpose of the policy was to limit the large family units in the country to one child each. After implementing the policy, the government hoped to see reduction in the growth rate of its enormous population. Sometimes couples can have a second child only if their first was a girl or had disabilities. As of today, China’s government believes that their one-child policy will result in a wealthier, healthier
Overall this movement was successful and China's population growth decreased from 1970 to 1976 (Fitzpatrick, 2009). Eventually this decrease slowed, and leveled off, prompting the government to take further action to slow the booming population. In 1979 a policy, known internationally as the one-child policy but more delicately called the “policy of birth planning”, was introduced requiring couples from China's ethnic majority to have only one child (Cai & Lavely, 2003).
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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
The article entitled “China Abandons One-Child Policy” was written by Laurie Burkitt and published in The Wall Street Journal on October 30, 2015. The article is concerned about the new policy that allows the Chinese to have two children and problems faced regarding the change of the policy.
Over population has been a global issue for decades. Many countries have attempted to battle this issue, but none as intensely as China. One Child Policy is a population control policy implemented by the People’s Republic of China .The One Child Policy is seen as being one of the most significant and talked about social policies ever implemented in the world and most importantly China. Although the One Child Policy seems like an extremely harsh and a controversial method, China’s One Child Policy has been proven to have a great effect on the lives of nearly a quarter of the world’s population for a quarter of a century (Hesketh). The purpose of the One Child Policy was to give China a solution to help the economy grow quickly and to gain a