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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…

Growing up alone, terrible isn’t it? In 1980 China created a controversial law called the one child law which allowed one child per couple. Was the one child law good? No! It was bad because of its effects on kids on society (parent/money), but in some ways good because it helped slow down the population. The one child law was bad because of it negative effects on kidds. Due to the lack of kids parents/elders had no one to rely on. As well as a gender gap that it created because boys were more…

The People’s Republic of China has a long and infamous record on countless authoritarian laws that they have bestowed upon their citizens. One of their most notorious policies happens to be the One-Child Law. This law forbids families of China’s largest culture group, Han Chinese, living in urban areas, from having more than one child. Those caught with two or more children could face punishment in the form of a fine, a loss of their job, or even forced sterilization. This legislation as…

September 18, 1980 would be a day that would live in infamy. With a staggering population count of almost 1.4 billion, change was crucial. This was the day that China decided to formally implement the one-child policy as a temporary measure, which soon became law. In the 1950s, as medical care and sanitation improved in China, coupled with the country's transformation from an agricultural country to an industrial nation, the population began to outpace the food supply. In 1958, a famine…

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…

Population control or no population control? This is an argument that is now being brought to our attention worldwide. Yes, there are problems with each choice, but one could say that population control takes away everyone’s God-given right to reproduce. As humans, everyone must take in consideration the belief of others. While it is true that our world is being overpopulated, polluted, and being struck by crime, everyone must remember the freedom all humans deserve to have. There will be…

One child generation in China: the spoon-fed, the burdened In October, 2015, to combat the aging society and labor shortage, China announced the end of its 30 years one-child policy, leaving people born in the 1980s and 1990s the only one-child generation. The one child policy was brought forward to control the growth of Chinese population in 1982 by Deng Xiaoping, the successor Chinese Chairman after Mao Zedong. At that time, the 2.67 birth rate and a population of 1 billion pressured Chinese…

Abortion views in North America and China For women in America, abortion is mostly a matter of personal choice; however, for Chinese women, it is driven by country policy. Everyone might know what abortion is but they clearly go about it differentially throughout multiple countries, but China has the highest rate of abortions. In America, women have many reasons for getting their abortions. For example, in America a twenty-year-old woman can always keep her baby, or she might feel…

were Formed for God’s Family. And uses the verse,“I am the vine, you are the branches”, from John 15:5 for the foundation of this section. He begins Chapter 15: Formed for God’s Family, by introducing the reader to Hebrews 2:10a which says “God is the One who made all things, and all things are for His glory. He wanted to have many children share His glory.” In the beginning when God created Adam and Eve God formed a plan for His people to glorify Him. The crazy thing is that we all were formed…

changes on the men in the novel. Two of the most unusual and interesting women we discussed from the novel were Edith Granger and Alice Marwood. Both women are beautiful and proud to the point where it becomes difficult to even distinguish the two from one another. The only obvious difference to be seen is that they both come from different social…