China's One Child Policy

China is a superpower country with plenty of social knowledge so why have they had a one child policy that makes it illegal for their citizens to have more than one child active for 30 years even though they are running out of females to repopulate, and they are going to need to keep their number high in order to keep their economy stable. There are plenty of reasons why they would do this, but some people would disagree. Some say the one-child policy does too much more harm to their country than it does positively. The one child policy isn't a perfect plan, it has flaws and there and many people who are not afraid to point out what they are. A man Kevin Xin, focuses on the problem of the imbalance in the male to female ratio that is current …show more content…
The number of females that are missing is incredibly immense. China has a total of 1.357 billion people in their country which makes up one-third of the entire planet’s population. Only one-fifth of those people are females 270.4 Million are females. China has over a billion people in their country and it is dominated by the number of males their compared to the number of females. Only ⅕ of the country is made up of females. Kevin Xin, an author on the subject, states the major population difference China is having. “China is missing more females than the size of Canada's total population”(Xin p.1). The difference is this large and they haven't taken any measures to try and solve the problem seem to be a bit obscene. It is not like they are not aware of their population, China started this to regulate it. The men that are planning to start families have a very small chance of ever getting the chance to because they may not even be able to find a wife. Kevin Xin talks about the chances of a man getting married in his article. “...one out of every five men will not be able to find …show more content…
This isn’t anything new either China’s population was growing at incredible rates for a long time with nothing to calm the birth rate. David Howden informs us on China's birthrate before the one child policy. “Throughout the 1950s and the 1960s, the Chinese population grew by about 2 percent per year”( 1). A increase in population that is that high is very dangerous. Just in around 50 years the population of their entire country would have doubled. That is less than the average human’s life time. If they had kept going at a rate like that, even with all of the land china has they would not have been able to economically be as influential as they are to the rest of the world that they are now. It isn't like there were doing anything wrong, the reason the population was growing so fast was because the were doing almost everything right. Zhao Yang was able to include why China’s population grew so rapidly. “China's population has continued to grow due to a large border and a continued modernization that has seen an increase in living standards and immigration as well as a decrease in infant mortality rates”( 4). Things were going so well in China that their general population felt as if they were comfortable with raising children in China at the state it was in. They were not wrong about it in any way but they just may have taken being