China's One-Child Policy Dbq

CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE 1. The one-child policy introduced by China has been debated whether or not it was necessary. China instated the new policy to control population growth in 1980. The one child policy was introduced to Chinese population to restrict families to only one child in hopes of reducing the rapidly growing population.

The real question comes into play, is the one child policy a good or bad thing? China's one child policy might have seemed brilliant at the time, but it overall did more harm to the people it affected, such as economic/emotional tolls, still rapid population growth, and many social consequences. While the GDP of China rose with this policy, the economic backlash was frenetic. The one-child policy reduced China's working class and created its own economic struggles when most of the population consisted of the elderly. Along with that, a huge emotional toll came with the falling economy.

To get a better understanding, we need to look at the family structure. With the policy the family structure was a "4-2-1 family structure (four grandparents, two parents and one child)" (Document E). There was added pressure on the one child at the bottom of the structure to marry and start a family that some just gave up. In addition to this, there is a traditional preference for having male babies so they can grow up and make money. With less women to marry, and the gender ratio being drastically swayed.

They wanted to reduce their population growth mainly because they didn't have the sufficient resources to support that large of a population. So is the one-child policy a good or bad idea for China? The one-child policy was a good idea for China mainly because it helped stabilize the environment, gave women better opportunities, and allowed children to grow up to be more successful. To start off, one of the many good effects that came out of the one-child policy, wasn't even really related to population. China's policy helped the environment in many different ways, such as reducing pollution and deforestation.

"The one-child policy had unquestionably caused fertility to decline more rapidly than it otherwise would have...and has therefore played a significant role in China's demographic transition...explaining up to a quarter of its per capita GDP growth in the last 3 decades (Document E). " The policy succeeded in curbing population growth and is shown to have improved job opportunities for many young women in China. " Indeed, some of the hottest and best paying jobs in today's globalizing social service economy...are open exclusively to young women... For these young women, the one-child policy seems to be a real blessing (Document

This policy made it to where that only one child could be born in each family,and if not followed there would be serious consequences. The one child policy was not a good idea to control the population. It was a good was unnecessary and had a bad effect on the kids who wanted and needed a sibling in their lives and families lives. One reason why the policy wasn't a good idea was because the fertility rate in women was already declining prior to when the one child policy was announced and it had a negative effect on the families who needed more than one kid in the family to help out with work. (Doc B)says that" Most of China's fertility decline occurred prior to the one child policy".

So, is the one child policy a good idea? The one child policy was a good, beneficial idea because it led to a decrease in pollution from China, an increase in land per capita for China's citizens, and lastly, it helped to improve the quality of many women's lives. The one-child policy was responsible for a major decline in the amount of pollution emitted from China. According to Document C, the control of the population has led to a decrease in sulfur dioxide emissions by 17.6% and a decrease in water pollution by 30.8% (Document C). The decrease in population and pollution has helped to slow global warming, and overall, helped China to not be as harmful to the environment, as it had been prior to the policy.

One reason that the one-child policy was a bad idea is because of its effects on society. Society as a whole has been affected in multiple different ways by the one-child policy. One example of this is from Document A, where the graph shows that ever since the

This pollution being removed is a positive affect because people in Henan get better living standards. China's one-child policy was a good idea because it lowered fertility rates. According to Document D's chart, China's fertility rate went from 2.7 to 1.7 in 29 years since the start of the policy. Document D. The. This reduction was positive because China's main goal was to reduce the amount of children per women, and the policy succeeded.

This causes the older population to be neglected and there to be fewer workers. Another problem in the population caused by the one child policy is the gender disproportion. China faced sex discrimination because boys were considered more culturally preferable than girls. In Document E, it also says that people practiced “...female infanticide...” Now, there are “...still 32 million more boys than girls under the age of 20...”

The worlds population consists of 6.9 billion people, and China alone is more than 1.2 billion of the worlds population. The one-child policy caused many consequential factors that has affected China's demographics as in causing young people/children to suffer mental health problems, accelerated aging/no labor & old age support, fertility rates to decline more rapidly causing a great unbalance of the sex ratio. The purpose of the one-child policy was to limit the family units to one child per family so it could reduce China's growth rate of its big population. To begin with, the policy has caused many young adults/ children to suffer many mental health problems/issues. In document F, Xiao Xuan states that "I used to cut myself on my wrist after being yelled at by my mom and dad because I didn't know who I should talk to or turn to," quoted by Jamie Florcruz.

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

According to Mao Zedong the Communist leader of China, “people are the most precious.”, yet China still supports the one-child policy. In 1960 Mao Thought about the out of control birth rate and had an idea to reduce the numbers by introducing “Late,Long and Few.” Meaning for couples to marry late, wait a while to have children, then have less children than they had planned to have. Is it a good idea for the government to control family decision such as the number of children a couple can have? The One-Child Policy by China is not a good idea because it created poor health for women, many social problems for the youth and the elderly, and it created gender imbalanced.

The first reason why China's one child policy is bad is the male to female ratio. “Today, there is a dismal male female ratio in the country. There are fifty million more males than females. This is not natural and it is detrimental to society” (2015). This is showing us how many males to females there are, and if there are fifty million more males than females that only causes problems when it's time to get married as later stated, “There are millions of men who don’t have wives and don’t have any girlfriends, nor do they have a chance of having one” (2015). With not many men having wives, it makes it harder to find people to have children with and keeping the population growing steadily. The one child policy is supposed to fix population problems, but it is

China’s one-child policy was implicated in China in the late 1970’s, during a time where China’s population was equivalent to about the quarter of the world’s population (CD, 2017). The Chinese government thought it was essential to put in place a policy that would aid the economic well being of the country and to improve the living standards, by controlling the rapid population growth. This policy meant that it was illegal for couples to have more than one child, disobeying this law would cause controversy and substantial punishment for the offenders. This policy caused major consequences that the Chinese government didn’t account for including, major gender imbalances, the little emperor syndrome and an aging population that can not be