One-China policy

In 1979, China introduced it’s one-child policy in order to decrease the nation’s rapidly growing population rate. Couples of the Han Chinese ethnicity were not allowed to raise more than one child. In this article, I will argue that China’s one-child policy was a good idea because it lowered the pollution rate and allowed more space for families, provided better opportunities for women, and supplied young adults with better futures. China’s one-child policy was a favorable act because it…

In China, the most populated country in the world, a preference for boys has been present since ancient times. The preference is rooted in their culture but strongly tied to financial reasons. Confucianism, taught by Confucius between the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., is a “system of social and ethical philosophy [that establishes the social values and institutions of most Chinese societies]” (Berling). The philosophy instills the belief that males are superior to females because they provide…

problem for China. To cope with this problem, China’s government started the “One-Child Policy” in 1979 with an aim to prevent an overpopulation disaster and to put an end to this problem. This policy is a part of the family planning program and is an extreme measure to stop its rapid expanding society. It mainly limits couples to have only one child each. According to the Chinese government, 400 millions births were prevented after implementing the policy. China initiated the One-Child…

In 1979, the one-child policy was enacted to control China’s overwhelming population. As the name states, it restricted the amount of kids a couple can have, down to a single child. Though it was a temporary policy, over the course of twenty years, the population significantly dropped from 1 billion to as low as 300 million (Geography.About.com). The controversy whether or not this enactment was reasonable is still debatable, however it cannot deny the fact that this had an adverse effect on…

China’s One-Child Policy There are around 318 million people in just the United States alone. If you take time to look around you during the day, you can see the damage we have done, and what we will continue to do as the US continues to fill with more people every day. The fact of the matter is the United States of America is practically overpopulated. With every new person we lose recourses and cause pollution. China’s one-child policy helped them with their overpopulation problem, it was a…

China being the most populated country in the world, makes having the One Child Policy easy to keep it from getting overpopulated and crowded. The one child policy was formally instituted 35 years ago on September 25, 1980. All over the world, many people get to choose the size of their family, as for china they are restricted by different beliefs of children. Populations are still rising rapidly for china but they are making an effort by attempting to enforce this policy. There are good things…

right now, one-child policy does limit the population of china, but it still left some society problems such as increasing abortion rate, imbalance of gender, the Little Emperor Syndrome and aging society. Firstly, the abortion rate started increasing since the policy introduced. Except the reason that they could not have the second child, there was another reason—gender difference. For example, in 1970’s, people were still very conservative. According to 10 Biggest Pros and Cons of the One…

China’s One-Child Policy Was a Good Idea at the Beginning Protecting China from an overpopulation disaster. Going back to know how this began. When China became a communist nation in 1949, China was a poor country. The leader Mao Zedong thought that more people would be better for China, “Chairman Mao called for couples to have more babies.” “More people, Mao though, would mean more workers, and more workers would mean a stronger China.” He wanted to create an industrial China, so he created a…

The future of China lies in the hands of the children. Without the growth of children, China as a country would find itself falling as time passes and new generations come. If labor continued to suffer because of the lacking numbers of children, and more parents sterilized their baby based off of what gender it was, China would never have reached to where the country wants to be in future generations. China's One child Policy was a bad policy enforced due to labor shortage and gender inequality.…

China’s one child policy is a classic example of the oversimplification of a complex issue. The overreliance on numbers and scientific thought as opposed to a more balanced approach resulted in the adoption of a policy that infringed upon the rights of Chinese women to control their own reproductive rights. While the one child policy allowed China to slow down their population growth at an unprecedented speed it is important to analyze the effects the policy had that are not quantitative. The…