China's One Child Policy
After reading the post on the Baby Care Company it got me thinking on the one child policy in China. I was wondering who thought on this policy, when did it begin and what are the consequences for multiple children? Here’s what I found. Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 made the one child limit in order to reduce communist China's population growth. China has proclaimed that it will continue its one child policy, which limits couples to having one child, through the 2006-2010 five-year planning period.This rule particularly has strongly affected female infants. This is why abortion, neglect, abandonment, and even infanticide have been known to occur to female infants. Some couples kill their females or have sex-selected abortions so that they can retry getting pregnant hoping to have a male child. Fines, pressures to abort a pregnancy, and even forced sterilization accompanied second or additional pregnancies occur in urban areas especially. Couples who abide to the one-child limit have been rewarded with better housing and services, as well as money. China has also used marketing campaigns such as this one: "One is good, two is ok and three is too many", fines, and more coercive methods have been used to help reduce birth rates. However, citizens living in rural areas and minorities living in China are not subject to the law and are allowed more that one child. Also if a couple is composed of two people without siblings, then they may have two children of their own, thus preventing too dramatic of a population decrease.
I found it to be a pretty interesting subject and I encourage you to check it out:
One Child Policy
posted by Anonymous @ 5/13/2006 09:57:00 PM
1 Comments:
This article certainly sounds like it does more harm than good. China should find a way to better regulate their population because the effects of this law, sometimes not thought of at first such as abortion and killing, are clearly wrong but are the effects of such laws. Perhaps one possible solution is a program to help spread Chinese people to different areas of the world that are currently less populated. The answe is not to cut back the number of children per woman since the fertility rate is only about 1.7 children per woman (lower than the US) according to this article. The idea of a Chinese movement into less populated countries may be a solution. It may cause culture conflicts and issues in friend networks, however if there was a Chinese movment to other nearby countries that are experiencing population decline we could see more balance in population and also new bonds through the bonding of cultures.
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