China’s One-Child Policy Was a Good Idea at the Beginning
Protecting China from an overpopulation disaster. Going back to know how this began. When China became a communist nation in 1949, China was a poor country. The leader Mao Zedong thought that more people would be better for China, “Chairman Mao called for couples to have more babies.” “More people, Mao though, would mean more workers, and more workers would mean a stronger China.” He wanted to create an industrial China, so he created a movement called “The Great Leap Forward” forcing people to abandon farming, this made China faced food shortages. “A devastating famine killed an estimated 30 million people.” After this, Mao realized that it wasn’t a good idea to encourage the population …show more content…
In comparison with the United States in 2010, the population was for times more. “The population of the US in 2010 was a little under 300 million, in the same year China’s population was 1350 million.” It is going to still increase even more until 2030 “In 2030 China’s is expected to peak 1400 million” and then after that it is going to start to decrease. Document B talks about the “Fertility Rates”. The nation’s fertility rate measure the average number of children each woman has in her life. The clear main idea is that most of China’s fertility decline occurred prior to the one child policy, so according to this document, this policy was not even necessary. Document C explains some really heavy reasons why this policy has a good idea. Talking about how air pollution, water pollution, and overcrowding justify the policy. “According to Liu, the population controls have kept sulfur dioxide emissions down by 17.6% and (reduce) water pollution by …show more content…
Looking how the singleton daughters in China were benefited, because ”they didn’t have brothers to compete for their parents’ attention and resources” and thanks to that, today women have more opportunities when before “gender norms have long dominated Chinese life”. In document F there are two interviews with two different people with two different points of view about the one-child policy. One of them Xiao Xuan says that she hated being an only child, “she had a mostly lonely childhood” that she would like to have brothers or sisters “I used to cut myself on my wrist after being yelled at by my mom and dad because I didn’t know who I should talk to or turn to”. On the other hand is A. J. Song who is really happy for being an only child. “He says he probably would not be living in Beijing if he had to share his parents’ attention and resources” He is in favor of the one-child policy because he thinks that “if you have more kids in your family, probably they’re lacking in education, lacking food, lacking any kind of support, no matter emotional or financial”. In some way I agree with him, you are not going to have the same opportunities being the only child that having more
Protecting China from an overpopulation disaster. Going back to know how this began. When China became a communist nation in 1949, China was a poor country. The leader Mao Zedong thought that more people would be better for China, “Chairman Mao called for couples to have more babies.” “More people, Mao though, would mean more workers, and more workers would mean a stronger China.” He wanted to create an industrial China, so he created a movement called “The Great Leap Forward” forcing people to abandon farming, this made China faced food shortages. “A devastating famine killed an estimated 30 million people.” After this, Mao realized that it wasn’t a good idea to encourage the population …show more content…
In comparison with the United States in 2010, the population was for times more. “The population of the US in 2010 was a little under 300 million, in the same year China’s population was 1350 million.” It is going to still increase even more until 2030 “In 2030 China’s is expected to peak 1400 million” and then after that it is going to start to decrease. Document B talks about the “Fertility Rates”. The nation’s fertility rate measure the average number of children each woman has in her life. The clear main idea is that most of China’s fertility decline occurred prior to the one child policy, so according to this document, this policy was not even necessary. Document C explains some really heavy reasons why this policy has a good idea. Talking about how air pollution, water pollution, and overcrowding justify the policy. “According to Liu, the population controls have kept sulfur dioxide emissions down by 17.6% and (reduce) water pollution by …show more content…
Looking how the singleton daughters in China were benefited, because ”they didn’t have brothers to compete for their parents’ attention and resources” and thanks to that, today women have more opportunities when before “gender norms have long dominated Chinese life”. In document F there are two interviews with two different people with two different points of view about the one-child policy. One of them Xiao Xuan says that she hated being an only child, “she had a mostly lonely childhood” that she would like to have brothers or sisters “I used to cut myself on my wrist after being yelled at by my mom and dad because I didn’t know who I should talk to or turn to”. On the other hand is A. J. Song who is really happy for being an only child. “He says he probably would not be living in Beijing if he had to share his parents’ attention and resources” He is in favor of the one-child policy because he thinks that “if you have more kids in your family, probably they’re lacking in education, lacking food, lacking any kind of support, no matter emotional or financial”. In some way I agree with him, you are not going to have the same opportunities being the only child that having more