Deng Xiaoping's One Child Policy In China

The problem in China in 1979 was that Chairman Mao wanted to have a large military army and strong country. He encouraged people to have many children because he thought the country would be stronger if there were more people. There were so many people that there was not enough food to feed the people in China. Between 1958 and 1962, over 20 million people died of starvation. The reason why the One Child Policy started was to reduce the population growth. Deng Xiaoping tried to fix the population problem by passing the One Child Policy. In the One Child Policy if you have more than one child you will be fined up to $50,000. In 1979, there was evidence that with this policy the population growth was reducing. China’s One Child Policy must be banned because girls are abandoned, killed, or living in orphanages and the male child is getting spoiled, lazy, fat, and unhealthy. …show more content…
In China, 98% of children in orphanages are girls. Some American families adopt the girls so they can have a good environment instead these little girls went through. Chinese families give away their daughters because boys are valued more than girls. Boys keep the family name and take care of the parents when they are older. This shows how little girls are not valued and explains why baby girls are being abandoned In the video of (Lost Girls) Lisa Ling spoke to a woman in China who was kidnapped and sold as a wife. This shows the situation will get worse in time where a woman will be kidnapped and sold as a wife. China’s One Child Policy is inhumane because girls are being abandoned, killed, or placed into overcrowded orphanages. This shows that these girls do not have the nurturing that normal children