One Child Law Dbq Essay

Growing up alone, terrible isn’t it? In 1980 China created a controversial law called the one child law which allowed one child per couple. Was the one child law good? No! It was bad because of its effects on kids on society (parent/money), but in some ways good because it helped slow down the population. The one child law was bad because of it negative effects on kidds. Due to the lack of kids parents/elders had no one to rely on. As well as a gender gap that it created because boys were more valuable than girls. Document C by Jonathan Watts talks about how how the smaller families have put financial pressure on parents and grandparents. Because one child must go to school and support their parents who must support their parents. With the belief that boys are more valuable than girls China has seen a major gap between boys and girls. Document B by Feng Wang and Cai Yong shows that a fertility rate has drastically gone down as well as the demand for baby girls becuase there and to many single guys. This is all bad because soon China will have a bad economy and there will be too many men and not enough women. …show more content…
Document E by Laura Fitzpatrick addresses that less younger and more older people will have to work to support their families.“In 2007 there were six adults of working age for every retiree but by 2040 the ratio is expected to drop to 2 to 1.” This will be bad because younger people will have a hard time to find jobs, while older people labor away in harsh factories. Document F talks about the lives of two only children growing up depressed and suicidal. This proves that the one child law is hurting the people of