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
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.
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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).
One reasonable solution to control the human population mass is the one-child policy that was first implemented in 1979 due to the rapid concerns about the social and economic issues China was facing. Penny Kane, a professor of the Office for Gender and Health, reports, Since the beginning of [China’s One-Child Policy] it has prevented over 400 million births and helped ease the overpopulation issue (Kane 2). Since this new policy suggested that every couple or family should only possess one child, it is evident that the efficiency of this new law clearly regulated and managed to lower the number of children each woman had. As the number of expected births decreases then the number of food sources, government resources, and educational
China had implemented one-child policy for about 35 years that affects China’s population declining. Moreover, aging population has been increasing; in this year they reach to 131 million, and will be many more in 2030, about 243 million. In addition, the policy also leads to the highest number of abortions in China because the cultural pressure makes the Chinese unwilling to have a female baby and they decide to abort her. As a developed country, China needs more workers for their big economic development; yet, Chinese workers, which are 15-64 years old, have been significantly decreasing because the majority of them are over-aged. To overcome the problems, the government of China deletes the one-child policy and replaced it to a new one that permits their citizens to have two children. However, the goverment has some obstacles in applying this policy. Mr. Liang said that even though
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 could only produce males, to one child.
China’s one child policy was aimed at cutting the nation’s population to boost economic growth. A short-termed solution for a big problem, which instead resulted in millions of forced sterilizations, abortions, infanticide, and marital misery. Also resulting in having much more men than women and more old people than there are young people. The policy also challenged many people's morals, as many would-be mothers were forced to have abortions
work on the farm or give them money after they have retired. A girl on