000166-XXX 1 China’s One-Child Policy: an Infringement of Human Rights Extended Essay: Human Rights School: Seoul Foreign School Name: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX Candidate Code: 000166-XXX May 2012 Word Count: 3‚835 000166-XXX 2 Abstract On January 1st 1979‚ the Chinese communist government implemented a policy of birth-control. This is referred to as the ‘One-Child Policy’ which limits each couple to having just one child. The policy aimed at modernizing China by promoting
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THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CHINA ’S ONE - CHILD POLICY STUDENT NAME: DUONG THI THANH MAI STUDENT NUMBER: 220113802 CLASS: CHINESE CULTURE SCHOOL: COLLEGE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENT‚ SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY OF CHINA EMAIL ADDRESS: DUONGMAI.VFU@GMAIL.COM ABSTRACT According to the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China‚ in 2010‚ China ’s population was more than 1.34 billion people‚ an increase of 5.84% in comparison with the year of 2000. However‚ the figure was lower
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One Child Policy in China Thesis: The One Child Policy in China is cruel and unfair to those it applies to. I Intro A. Today‚ China has the largest population in the world. B. The One Child Policy only applies to Han Chinese living in urban areas. C. Created to control population growth‚ using any means necessary. D. Thesis II Body paragraph 1 1. China has reduced the population by 200 million people a. Implemented by government to alleviate pop. growth‚ social‚ economic‚ and
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What is the impact of One Child Policy on China’s society? The implementation of One-Child Policy first started in 1979 where each couple is entitled to give birth to only one child causing birth rate to decrease and since the 1990‚ the percentage of one child births exceeds 90 percent. (Feng‚ et al.‚ 2014). This policy has avert 400 million births (Feng ‚ et al.‚ 2013). The Implementation of One-Child Policy had caused problems in the society where there is an imbalance sex ratio‚ changes in the
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Crystal Valencia Mr. Smock Language Arts 4‚ Period 2 11 March 2013 China’s One Child Policy Like Arthur Waley states "When a son is born‚ Let him sleep on the bed‚ Clothe him with fine clothes‚ And give him jade to play…When a daughter is born‚ Let her sleep on the ground‚ Wrap her in common wrappings‚ And give broken tiles to play…". Traditional Chinese Society value and worship boys rather than girls because they say boys are more beneficial since they are harder workers and they carry on
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Is China’s one child policy a good idea? Yes I believe it is. If China didn’t have the one child policy the average person would have less water and land (Doc C). A student that is only the only child will have a higher chance of getting better grades (Doc F). And you also wouldn’t have to spend a lot of money if you have a small family. When this policy didn’t exist a whole bunch of people would have babies‚ and there were too many people living in a place. China has so many people. They needed
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One Child Policy In 1949‚ Mao Zedong governed China from nineteen forty nine to nineteen seventy six. Chinas population was poor at the time and the government was running out of ways to help chinas economy fix itself. China was in a dire need for a change. So Mao decided that he would encourage families to have more and more children. His logic was that the more people birthed would mean more workers to work on farms‚ ensuing a stronger China. He wanted China to thrive and surpass the richer nations
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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
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Chinas One-Child Policy Lilibeth Dejesus Geography period 7 Mrs. Barajas China’s One-Child Policy In China‚ there are more than 1.3 billion people living‚ working and building families. In 1978‚ the government created China’s one-child policy. China’s one-child policy was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to limit China’s population growth. The policy lets couples have only one child. If they have another child the mother is pressured to abort the pregnancy. The one-child
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China’s one-child family policy has had a great effect on the lives of nearly a quarter of the world’s population for a quarter of a century. When the policy was introduced in 1979‚ the Chinese government claimed that it was a short-term measure and that the goal was to move toward a voluntary small-family culture.1 In this article‚ we examine to what extent this goal has been achieved and the implications for the future of the policy. First we explain why the policy was introduced and how it is
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