Chinas One-Child Policy In 1979 The Chinese government introduced a policy decreeing that each family could only have one child and any family that had more than one would be given an annual fine. In this essay I will answer weather the policy has done what it was made to do. The location of China is in the southeast part of Asia along the coastline of the Pacific Ocean. It has an area of 9.6 million square kilometres. Chinas population is currently 1.3 Billion. China is facing problems like
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ONE-CHILD POLICY IN CHINA "For a prosperous‚ powerful nation and a happy family‚ please use birth planning." (Government sign in Nanchang‚ China) Introduction China’s population surge during the second half of the 20th century was largely man-made. It had put China’s policymakers a pressure to slow down the rapid increase in a huge population as it was a development burden for the country. Going into effect since 1981‚ the One-child policy refers to the one-child limitation on most families
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China One Child Policy State philosophy of the 1950s was that a large population gave a strong nation‚ so high birth rate was encouraged‚ as well as this during that time death rate fell due to better supply of food and medicine. In 1959‚ all attention was paid to improving industry leaving no attention on farming and as a result killing 20 million in a famine. After the famine‚ during the 1960s population was seen to be a problem with 55 million born every year. The result of this was the policy
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of the One Child Policy Elana Kopelman As a country’s population grows‚ the demand for resources such as food‚ water‚ and housing increases. However‚ every country has limited resources to provide for its population. When China was faced with a booming population‚ the Communist Party knew that they had to preserve the country’s resources. As a solution‚ the One Child Policy was implemented in 1979 to stabilize China’s population. Despite this attempt for stability‚ the One Child Policy negatively
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China’s one child policy was established by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to slow the rise of communist China’s exponential population growth. China is the world’s most populous country and its population will only continue to rise unless something is done about it. Some find it harsh and inhumane to limit the number of offspring‚ but China is doing this for its people. An unchecked population growth puts and enormous strain on resources and hampers economic development. China’s one child policy was necessary
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One-child Policy Should Not be Abolished In the 1970`s‚ Chinese government implemented one-child policy for Chinese families to control the rapidly growing population (Zhang and Goza 2006). This policy‚ although passed into law for almost 40 years‚ has come under much heated debate on whether China should maintain it or abolish it altogether. Along with Chinese population structure changing‚ two social issues‚ population aging and imbalance of sex ratio arise and gradually become manifest. One-child
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of many different policies and laws. Some of these laws have proven to be beneficial‚ while others have caused significant emotional and economical damage. China ’s One-Child Policy inducted in 1979‚ is one of those damaging policies which has dramatically altered China ’s economic well-being while emotionally scaring most if not all of China ’s families. Planning for a family‚ caring for the elderly and prejudice against females are all associated with the One-Child Policy. When thinking about
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Victor Acosta Argumentative Essay China’s One-Child Policy According to the U.S. Census Bureau the world’s population consists‚ of 6‚908‚497‚829 people. China resides as the world’s leading populated country with 1‚336‚718‚015 people. Because‚ of this over population it maintained fears of their food‚ resources‚ and living spaces. The Chinese government then implemented the one-child policy. The one-child policy has prevailed effectively in slowing down the population growth‚ but it has
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Thirty years after the mainland began forbidding some families from having more than one child‚ in order to solve a dizzying population crisis‚ the country’s psychiatrists say the result has been a self-centred generation that‚ having grown up without siblings has never learned to share. Now‚ as the children from one-child families enter child-bearing age themselves‚ mainland authorities have decided to intervene to prevent similar problems occurring. In Beijing and Guangzhou‚ health authorities
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One Child Policy in China What is One Child Policy? It is the birth control policy‚ one of the most important social policies over the world. Simply to say‚ One Child Policy is the population control policy that has applied since 1979 in China. The government sets a limit for the maximum number of children for each family. It officially restricts married urban couples to have only one child while it allows rural couples‚ minorities to have more than one child. It isn’t quite difficult to
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