How does China's two child policy affect families? The one-child policy is probably just one factor in the the sex ratio that is mostly males. Females always having babies resulted in a high sex ratio in China in the 1930s and 1940s. It is likely that, even without the policy, abortion would continue. The solution would come only with a change in attitudes toward female offspring. Publicity campaigns promoting girls are now widespread and acknowledge the importance of such change.
The Chinese government has acknowledged the social consequences of this gender imbalance with increased mental health problems, socially disruptive behavior among men, kidnapping and trafficking women for marriage and increased numbers of commercial sex workers. This added to the rise in human …show more content…
"With these ambitious goals a national campaign of mandatory birth planning was put into full motion. The slogan that summarized the three demographic components of the campaign was later, longer, and fewer”( Whyte,149). “Later” referred to the effort to enforce late marriage at least a age 25 for brides and 27 or 28 for grooms in the city, and a 23 for brides and 25 for grooms in the countryside. “Longer” referred to requiring greater intervals be- tween permitted births. The post 1970 campaign in no way relied upon persuasion or voluntary compliance. Many of the diverse enforcement techniques became outstanding. The one-child policy was launched in 1980 actually date from this “later, longer, fewer” campaign of the 1970s. State bureaucrats in charge of enforcing birth control then oversaw grass-roots birth planning workers in each village, urban work unit and neighborhood. These birth planning enforcers kept detailed records on each woman that was old enough to
The Chinese government has acknowledged the social consequences of this gender imbalance with increased mental health problems, socially disruptive behavior among men, kidnapping and trafficking women for marriage and increased numbers of commercial sex workers. This added to the rise in human …show more content…
"With these ambitious goals a national campaign of mandatory birth planning was put into full motion. The slogan that summarized the three demographic components of the campaign was later, longer, and fewer”( Whyte,149). “Later” referred to the effort to enforce late marriage at least a age 25 for brides and 27 or 28 for grooms in the city, and a 23 for brides and 25 for grooms in the countryside. “Longer” referred to requiring greater intervals be- tween permitted births. The post 1970 campaign in no way relied upon persuasion or voluntary compliance. Many of the diverse enforcement techniques became outstanding. The one-child policy was launched in 1980 actually date from this “later, longer, fewer” campaign of the 1970s. State bureaucrats in charge of enforcing birth control then oversaw grass-roots birth planning workers in each village, urban work unit and neighborhood. These birth planning enforcers kept detailed records on each woman that was old enough to