Overpopulation in China
Background
1949 The Peoples Republic of China was formed. The population then was made up of mostly workers. The Chinese families were paid to have babies.
1953 The Chinese population had grown to about 583 million people. The Chinese government no longer offered an incentive of pay to have babies.
1963 The Chinese government realized that the families continued to produce babies and they were headed for major problems. The Chinese government came out with, Later Sparcer Fewer Policy. The Policy encouraged Couples to have children later in life, space the births farther apart, and have fewer children. The problem with this policy was that there were already millions of people in China.
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As a result The Chinese government relaxed the laws regarding the One Child Policy, and allowed families to have a second child if there first child was a girl.
1998 Approximately 19% of the population of China adheres to the birth control policies.
Benefits
Economically in the past fifty years, China has raised the standard of living in the country by keeping birth rates down. Access to Earths natural resources in the area has increased since 1980. The Chinese has plenty of land for agriculture, food supply, water and gas resources to sustain presently.
Natural water resources were not being encroached upon and eroded by humans because of the population control. There was enough land for people to live on and not spread out further to natural resources.
According to The State Family Commission off China tap water coverage has dramatically increased in a ten year span by 10% from 84% up to 94%.
Natural gas coverage had an overwhelming increase for the better, from 16% percent up to 73%.
Medical care and insurance during this time frame experienced benefits that included birth insurance, workmens compensation for mothers who followed China's birth policies. According to the Knowledge Galaxy Home (2009) better benefit packages are offered to Women who have their child/children at a later age. They are offered more time off, and other work incentives.
Life expectancy has risen because all of the
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
China's one-child policy In China there was a civil war that ended in 1949, this caused China to do something desperate to help their country. Leader at the time, Mao Zedong, decided that something impactful had to be done because the country was having troubles especially economic troubles. He thought that if the population grew, it would mean a stronger nation for China, therefore pregnancy was encouraged. It was until he realized that this did not help at all because the population became too large and there wasn't enough food and resources to feed everyone. Then the idea came to introduce the one child policy.
CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE 1. Have you ever thought about if there was a law against you and your wife having more kids, well if you lived in China in 1980 you were out of luck because they just implemented the one child policy. In 1980 China was growing so rapidly the government had to take a step in and implement a law saying each household could only have one kid, this was because China was growing so rapidly they wouldnt be able to keep up with the extremely fast growing population. Some might ask is the one child policy a good idea and to that I say yes. The one child policy was a good idea because it helped with pollution, economics, and the relationships in Chinese households.
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
Finally, The One Child Policy was a good idea because it pushed academic success, lessens the load on the environment, and lowers fertility rates which then lowers the population density of already crowded China. Although China’s One Child Policy was a great idea and has helped China significantly, it has created a gender imbalance of over 32 million males than there are
In 1980 the Chinese government became intently terrified of the current population of their country. China housed over 950 million citizens and growing. To stop the increasing rates of fertility the government created a proposal to keep citizenry rates down. The one-child policy stated that every household of china could only give birth to one child. The conspiracy of the policy has said to have had positive and negative out views of the only child. In final analysis the making of the one-child policy left China prosperous in educational value, conserving land as well as pollution and limiting the overdevelopment of citizenry.
Between 1959-1961 there was a great famine in China that got everyone's attention. Resources for such a large population were scarce. The government recognized that something had to be done about the population. Distribution of contraception's, promotion of late marriages, and two child families were all part of a post famine campaign by the government. This lasted less then four years as China's population began to increase again.
China’s One-Child Policy which was created in 1980, brought much negativity among people, this policy restricted and disabled many human rights and violations in which i totally disagree with this entire policy. It blocked and restricted many family members to inherit and have kids which was a very disturbing matter, it’s sad how at that time parents couldn’t have babies born. There were many other negative impactful factors, there was a lot of racial discrimination among blacks and other races in that time period, people started forcing them to work as a slave tragically. One of the most important major factors that stood out in the One-Child Policy was
In 1979, China decided to establish a one child policy which states that couples are only allowed to have one child, unless they meet certain exceptions[1].In order to understand what social impacts the one child policy has created in China it important to evaluate the history of this law. China’s decision to implement a Child policy has caused possible corruption, an abuse of women’s rights, has led to high rates of female feticide, has created a gender ratio problem for China, and has led to specific problems associated with both the elderly and younger generation. Finally, an assessment of why China’s one child policy is important to the United States allows for a full evaluation of the policy.
What is the China’s population law is when the government decides how many kids you can have , Chinese families had a limit birth of 2 kids.
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 in China came about in 1979; it refrains families from having more than one child. The reason the government felt the need to institute this policy was because the population of China was growing so rapidly that they had to do something to stop
With the One Child Policy, families were either forced to put their children up for adoption or were forced to have an abortion. Sometimes, people even put their children up for adoption because of their gender. “In the beginning when the policy came around in 1980, at that time they did not have scanning machines that could determine the gender of the fetus at an early stage, so people who delivered girls, for example, and wanted to keep their quota for that one boy — because if you used up your quota for a girl and then you gave birth to another girl and you would lose that — so people would either abandon their daughters or there would be infanticide, or they would give them away…”(NPR). The Chinese thought that having sons was the way
China’s population growth began to increase during the Ming Dynasty, and increased dramatically throughout Qing. The population grew around 65million in the late 14th century to more than 400 million in 1949 (Spengler 1962: 112). Since the People Republic of China was founded, Mao had seen the population growth as favorable to industrialization, and he believed that population growth empowered the country (Potts 2006). In the 1950s, the government began to realize that the food supply would soon become insufficient for the rapidly growing population, and stopped encouraging people to have more children through propaganda posters. In the beginning of the 1970s, the government launched the “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign.
In the 1949, the Communist party rose to power and founded the People’s Republic of China. The leader of the Communist party was Mao Zedong, who played a significant role in Chinese history. Subsequent to election, Mao Zedong encouraged people to have children and reproduce, in the hope that population would increase and therefore so would the army and workforce, turning China into a mighty and powerful nation. However, while this was not stated in an official policy, through the use of propaganda, it was apparent that this was wanted the government wanted. Furthermore, the Chinese government criticized, and in some cases banned the importing and use of contraceptives.