One-child policy

China’s One-Child Policy The Communist Party officially implemented the One-Child Policy in 1979 as a means to curb population growth (The Guardian, Date). Prior to such implementation, the Chinese Government adopted the slogan “Late, Long, Few” (later marriage, longer birth intervals, and fewer births) in 1975, urging each family to have no more than two children. To achieve its goal of lowering population growth rate, the Chinese Government later introduced the One-Child Policy (hereafter…

The one child policy helped advert 200 million births in an almost one billion populated China (Doc B & A). China’s one child policy was a way to limit Chinese couples to only one child due to the fast growing population. This was a positive notion because it contributed to helping the environment, pushed children of 1 child homes to succeed and gave women opportunities. The environment was able to thrive due to the population decrease improving the lives of the citizens. In doc C is states,…

population growth has led to many issues. The government 's One Child Policy was the cause of the many issues within the population such as decline in birth rates, unequal sex ratios, gender imbalance, and population growth. In China’s efforts to control population growth, sex selective abortion cases have increased. Consider the 2011 murder of a seven month old baby. In Beijing, a woman was seven months pregnant with her second child when several people entered her home and took her away…

Policies to Manage Population Increases Experts have realized that the increase in population has negative effects on the biosphere. Over the years, population has risen at staggering rates. The increase calls for more homes to be built, leading to the tearing down of trees, referred as deforestation. One thing for sure, trees are needed to absorb some of the toxins and release oxygen back into the air. The increase of human population along with deforestation has been the root of our…

“Our economy only works as well as it does now because we are borrowing from the future, using up resources at an unsustainable rate.” (Page 5) This quotation from an article, “Here’s why China’s one-child policy was a good thing”, comes up with a serious environmental problem that limited resources are not enough for human beings to use in the future. As economy growing, environmental pollution always becomes the most serious problem in the world. Growing population requires an increasing…

and prestige. China’s one child policy has implemented this belief that the male child is a greater asset than that of a female child. In China the children of the male sex is more revered than that of the female child. It is believed that the male child will not leave home as an adult and will care for the elderly parents. Whereas the female child will marry and leave home, leaving the elderly parents to grow old and to care for themselves. When in fact the female child is more apt to care…

later would mean “a stronger China” lastly he made a movement called The Great Leap Forward which resulted in a total failure, because people were faced with food shortages and an estimated 30 million people died. From this Mao Zedong created the One-Child Policy, allowing people to only have…

led to food shortage and famine. The communist party took in charge of the problem during 1980’s and restricted one child per couple in order to stabilize water and food supplies. The goal was to keep the population under 1.2 billion by the end of the twentieth century. Since 1980 doctors all over China, doctors have performed 196 sterilizations and 336 abortions to help maintain the policy. Due to China being a patriarchal society, abortion, parental sex selection, and other causes are the…

2015). Political institutions, both national and international must take measures into ensuring their people’s safety and well being by solving these grass root problems. The methods to do so may vary from international cooperation, governmental policies, and education reformation. Overpopulation is the main reason for the issues we see today; achieving successful population control, especially in the future, will deter potential concerns and alleviate many headaches down the road.…

infanticide is a great problem in China today where many women and children are being affected. People around the world are being affected by adopting many of these young girls. One forth of adoptions comes from China and almost all are girls (China’s Lost Girls). The term female infanticide means the act of getting rid of your female child/fetus whether that is by means of abandonment, abortion, or killing shortly after birth. Many people in China are affected by many causes for female…