Effects Of One Child Policy In China

Register to read the introduction… The first and most profound critic of the policy is that it has highly compromised the morals of the Chinese people. It has been evidently witnessed that the policy has increased the number of abortions in the nation. It is worth noting here that abortion is a social crime of killing the unborn. It is thus a compromise of a nation’s provision on human rights that a nation can impose a law that threatens the life of its people (Chang, 2008). The law has also been found to encourage discriminative pregnancies. The number of female kids in the nation has witnessed a sharp decrease over the past few decades of the implementation of the policy. It has been a common believe in China that male child is an important resource to the society. It is such believes which have led to the abortion of many female pregnancies. This is a great risk to the sustainable social well being of the Chinese community. It has in fact been the concern by the government on the well being of the female gender that the care for girls program has been implemented (Li, 2000). This program seeks to resolve the problem of discrimination of the girl child in the …show more content…
It is due to the law that abortion and abandonment particularly for the girl child have been on the increase. Such practices are not only immoral but are in purpose a major threat to the future of the Chinese nation.

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