China's One Child Policy Dbq

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CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE 1. Imagine living somewhere with more than 100 million people in the same city. Wouldn't that be insane? In 1980, China's Chairman Mao Zedong decided to create a policy that would help save China's environment because their standard of living began to decline due to overpopulation in their nation. The policy did change China's environment, but overall the One-Child policy was a bad idea because it caused major problems between family affairs, the population was not effected, and it created a huge sex ratio with having more men than women. One reason why the One-Child policy in China did not work was because it did not affect their population. In Document A, it shows a population graph of China between 1950 and 2100. We can tell that during policy, it was not working because the population was rapidly growing and went up from 980 million in 1980, to 1.1 billion in 1990. Their population was meant to grow, and is expected to grow in the future. The rapid growth made the policy have no meaning, which is a reason why they had to end the policy 35 years later. …show more content…

In Document E, it explains how about 30 million Chinese men were unable to find a wife for them because of the imbalance between women and men. Most of the incoming parents also wanted boys instead of girls, which can create an unbalanced ratio. This creates problems in families because a handful of Chinese men won't have partners until 2030 because of the difference between men and women. It could create emotional stress for men, and they would have to be lonely instead of having a

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