China's One-Child Policy was a policy made to help lower the population of China. The reason behind this policy was to prevent China from overpopulating. The policy was a rule that allowed you to only have one child, preferably a male. However, this policy had many negative sides to it. So, China's One Child Policy, was it beneficial or detrimental to China and its people? The policy that the government laid down on its people was detrimental because one it would make China's elderly suffer neglect, the population will still get higher in the future, and the singleton daughters are being looked at as women with good looks and sex appeal.
As the policy has been going on, there has certainly been a rise in single children with no siblings. Therefore, China's elderly will suffer neglect because if one child has to take care of their parents and grandparents, the caretaker will be easily overwhelmed. "In 2007 there were six adults of working age for every retiree, but by 2040 that ratio is expected to drop 2 to 1 (Document E). So China's ratio of adults of working age for every retiree went juristically down to 2 adults …show more content…
The population still got higher. On the "Population Graph", it shows how in 2030, China will still reach 1.4 billion people. Justifying that the policy was not very effective because China's population will still grow and be overpopulated (Document A). Further more, "...the one child policy limitation only applies to Han Chinese, an ethnicity group that makes up to 90 percent of the population" (Background Essay). Even though this might be the majority of the people you have to take it into consideration that that other 10% is a pretty big number of people that do not have to follow the policy showing that the population can still increase giving that the other 10% do not have to follow this policy. So for that reason that is why the population will still be
As the policy has been going on, there has certainly been a rise in single children with no siblings. Therefore, China's elderly will suffer neglect because if one child has to take care of their parents and grandparents, the caretaker will be easily overwhelmed. "In 2007 there were six adults of working age for every retiree, but by 2040 that ratio is expected to drop 2 to 1 (Document E). So China's ratio of adults of working age for every retiree went juristically down to 2 adults …show more content…
The population still got higher. On the "Population Graph", it shows how in 2030, China will still reach 1.4 billion people. Justifying that the policy was not very effective because China's population will still grow and be overpopulated (Document A). Further more, "...the one child policy limitation only applies to Han Chinese, an ethnicity group that makes up to 90 percent of the population" (Background Essay). Even though this might be the majority of the people you have to take it into consideration that that other 10% is a pretty big number of people that do not have to follow the policy showing that the population can still increase giving that the other 10% do not have to follow this policy. So for that reason that is why the population will still be