Impact of China's One Child Policy: An Analysis

China’s one child policy has overall negatively affected not only it’s population, but also China’s overall economic state both presently and in the future, China’s social aspect of life, and finally it has negatively affected China due to its over excessiveness along with it’s unnecessity.

China’s one child policy came to be shortly after General Mao gained the title of a leader. Mao was keen on creating a communist country dedicated to using it’s high population of possible workers to produce high amounts of money. Unfortunately, this never came to be due to a large famine, which killed around 30 million people. Mao later realized his mistakes and decided that rather than having a high population, China should now focus on prosperity

Such an example of this has been endured and told by one of the many only-childs of china, Xiao Xuan, “Still she had a mostly lonely childhood, ‘ I used to cut myself on my wrist after being yelled at by my mom or dad because I didn't know who I should talk or turn to’” (Doc G). The fact that the government has limited the total amount of children to be born can have larger effects on those most immediately affected, the actual children, and this child, Xiao Xuan, just so happened to live a sad and depressing life due to the lack of siblings. This problem, however, can most likely affect more than just Xiao Xuan since the largest portion of the Chinese people are stuck under the one child policy and it’s reign of negativeness. Despite the children not actively being involved in the world around them, they can however help around the house or help the family in general by either tending to the elders or simply helping around the house when needed for simple task. These seemingly simple acts carried out by the children are slowly diminishing in common Chinese households due to the One child policy according to Feng Wang and Cai Young. These two have found that, “The one child policy, critics warned, would forcefully alter kin relations for Chinese families, and result in accelerated aging… To enforce a policy that is so extreme and unpopular for families who relied on children for labor and old age support, physical abuses and violence would be inevitable” (Doc C). It is due to the lack of children that not only will the children be affected negatively, but also the parents and grandparents. The parents will have to try harder to get their children to do more to make up for the decrease in amount of children, they will often resort to abuse or yelling which can possibly lead to