The one child policy was first introduced in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s by the central government. The population was rapidly approaching one billion, so Deng Xiaoping implemented the policy to reduce the growth rate of their population.The goal of the policy was the limit the vast majority of families to having only one child. The government started promoting birth control and family planning as a way of limiting family size. The policy was effective at limiting the population in the latter stages of its implementation, but also brought several issues including forced abortions and sterilizations, a male dominant society, fewer children to support their grandparents, and second children being undocumented.
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