China's One Child Policy

China is everywhere these days and we can see that China influences our lives in many ways. It is not hard to find a product with the label “made in China” on it. China has a major effect on the international market. So what will happen if China’s working population becomes more elderly? China’s elderly population has begun to take a toll on its economy in the past three decades. The one child policy has also weakened China’s workforce and it has caused this massive increase in the elderly population. The one child policy has left China’s working population looking very gray. Policy changes have aided in movement towards a solution to this problem. The One-Child policy has left three decades of problems for its citizens and government. The
Moreover, changes in policy are very important. They are very important because in China there was once implemented a one-child policy. “China's massive population is a legacy of Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who strove to increase the ranks of the Red Army by encouraging large families and banning imports of contraceptives and declaring their use a capitalist plot." (Weiss, K. R., 2012, July 22). The one child policy was part of a family planning policy that was meant to control the rapid growing population in China. The one-child policy was introduced in 1979 and had decreased the birth rate by 400 million births. The policy was meant to reduce the population by forcing/enticing people to only have one child. The Communist Party would also state that the one-child policy was a way preserve natural recourses and prevent more pollution. “The colossal industrial expansion of recent decades has depleted natural resources and polluted the skies and streams. China now consumes half the world's coal supply. It leads all nations in emissions of carbon dioxide, the main contributor to global warming. Pollutants from its smokestacks cause acid rain in Seoul and Tokyo.” (Weiss, K. R., 2012, July 22). Health problems would arise and people
The Communist Party is trying to find a solution for the growing elderly population through self-governances. Unfortunately, As we all know, we all need to work and everyone leads a busy a life. Sometimes our jobs take over our personal lives. Sometimes we embarrassingly use this as an excuse to not visit out parents or take care of other responsibilities. The Communist Party took note of this and added a law to motivate these children to visit their parents. But if China is still so family oriented then this law should not be inconvenient to them. On the contrary, this law was enacted because there was an increasing amount of reports of elderly parents being neglected by their children. “Many were shocked by the story of a 91-year-old grandmother who was beaten and forced out of her home in China's southern Jiangsu province after she asked her daughter-in-law for a bowl of rice porridge.” (Hatton, C., 2013, July 1). Where did traditional china go? Traditional China is still there, but a bit more modern. Meng Meng and Katie Hunt wrote an article on this called New Chinses law: Visit Your Parents. Meng and Hunt state that “Although respect for the elderly is still deeply engrained in Chinese society, traditional values like filial piety have been weakened by the country's rush to modernity.” (Meng, M., & Hunt, K., 2013, July 2). The family ties are still strong. Parents are