Policies to Address Child Poverty Essay

If his original idea of overpopulation leading our world into “war and suffering” was correct, solving overpopulation would make situations which are more important nonexistent. Furthermore, Barter’s (2000) article reaffirms this idea when he discusses a decrease in population correlates with decreased violence and ecological impact (p. 242). An important factor when it comes to discussing human overpopulation is how to address and solve it. Of the vast amount of possible solutions found after researching and discussing professionals in the field of this predicament, there are only two semi-ethical ways that could potentially solve overpopulation. First, laws should be passed nationwide preventing families from having an excess amount of children (one or two children per family). Those who refuse to follow these laws will be penalized by fines, sterilization, or other means. China, a country constantly resting in the overpopulated category, has had the “one-child policy”, a law stating that a family may not have more than one child, unless that child is female, for nearly thirty-five…

condemning of birth control. In 1979 the one child policy officially came into effect throughout China. This policy limits the number of children couples can have to one and in some cases two. Since its instatement, the policy has prevented more than 250 million births (Fitzpatrick). The Chinese government 's attempts to slow a rapidly expanding population through the instatement of the one-child policy limited the freedoms of the people and placed additional burdens on the average citizen that…

Human Trafficking: How This Criminal Network Became a World Organization Modern day slavery is prevailing in our advanced, post-savage societies all throughout the world. It never looks the same, from domestic servitude, forced labor, child labor, bonded labor and even sex trafficking, it is still a very prominent form of income for many people, a source of terror for others, all the while becoming the norm in these societies. China is a very popular destination for human trafficking, in…

In 1979, the Chinese Communist Party instituted a law called the one-child policy in order to decrease its rapidly growing population. Recently, this law has been changed to a two-child policy to increase the population. However, the effects of the former law still persist in China today. There are many different perspectives when examining this topic, but an ethical view is one of the most important because many people question whether or not it is acceptable for the government to interfere…

Liping had told me so many wonderful things about China, but I wanted to know about the harder times. I decided to do further research starting with the missing women in China due to the one-child policy, the education of Chinese women primarily after they have gotten married, and depression and suicide amongst women. The gender gap seems very evident; however, there may be reasons for this phenomenon. Erwin Bulte, Nico Heerink, and Zhang Xiaobo teamed up and wrote an article for the Oxford…

China might be thinking about scrapping its controversial one child policy, as the country faces a demographic challenge. China’s population is aging and labour force is declining. Could the country create a baby boom? China is facing a big demographic problem as the country now has the biggest and rapidly aging population while the working age population also continues to decline. The situation is made trickier by the fact that China’s economic growth is cooling off. In order to ease the…

Before 1980’s an average family in China had approximately four children and the population was getting out of hand which led to food shortage and famine. The communist party took in charge of the problem during 1980’s and restricted one child per couple in order to stabilize water and food supplies. The goal was to keep the population under 1.2 billion by the end of the twentieth century. Since 1980 doctors all over China, doctors have performed 196 sterilizations and 336 abortions to help…

time of immense poverty and famine(BGE). Was China’s one child policy a future proof idea? The one child policy in China was a helpful idea for reasons that will be explained in this essay. The one child policy was helpful to China because it slowed the growth of China’s population. Many of those who argue against the one child policy…

Did you know that pandas can climb really high? Well they can, they can climb the top of the tallest tree in the whole entire world!!! They are very good climbers because they live on the mountains and that's mostly what they do. Physical Appearance and family life Have you ever wondered what a baby panda looks like and acts like? Well you won’t now. First, A baby panda is actually blind. Also, Baby pandas Are baby pink with tiny hairs. As a baby panda grows into an adult panda it gets…

household and in society. The One-Child Policy heightened the injustice they face and continued to restrict women’s reproductive rights. “In the nineteen-eighties, female factory workers were forced to show their stained menstrual napkins to prove they weren’t pregnant” (Demick). Although China has gone along way to make revisions to the One-Child Policy, there needs to be an end to sex-selective abortions in rural areas through propaganda that promotes the value of females. Currently, China’s…