China's One Child Policy

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The world’s most populated country, occupying a population approaching one and a half billion and contributing to approximately twenty percent of the worldwide population. A country called China. During the late 1970’s, the overgrowing population was reaching one billion, and was getting out of hand, causing problems for the residents. Chinese citizens were living in extreme poverty, starvation and lack of resources, and to rectify these issues, the Chinese government introduced the One Child Policy. A policy that permits couples to have only one, and only one child to diminish the extremely populated country. The One Child Policy is very controversial, like any other government law and regulation. Both beneficial and detrimental towards …show more content…

Alexandra Paul, author of “A New One Child Policy” stated that “the Chinese government still has to buy up land all over the world to grow food for its people, like the recent purchase of a swathe of Ukrainian farmland the size of Belgium”. Being Required to rely on buying a massive land mass from another country to grow crops and agriculture to feed the people is not a typical action. China was clearly having population issues if they couldn't grow enough food for their citizens within their country. Conditions would be more severe if the one child policy did not take place. With a maintained growing population, and later decreasing population, China will be able to feed its own country, instead of having to purchase land from other countries to grow crops and agriculture, increasing their economic. “By stabilizing population, the country is capable of feeding itself,” said Alon Tal, author of “In Praise of China’s One-Child Policy” from Huffington post. The one child policy was beneficial towards China’s economy, without it the Chinese government would be investing in more land than they already …show more content…

Forced abortions and forced sterilization. The result of not following the laws is the reason why many women must undergo a forced medical procedure. It's not the government’s fault that the woman on the medical table has to go under forced abortion or sterilization. It's her and the partner’s own fault. When the law is broken, there has to be consequences. With an overgrowing population that is having so much effect on China, the solution is to either prevent birth or start to execute people. Without the one-child policy, a plethora of the population would lose the quality of life many would starve and die due to the lack of resource and food. How would China solve their overgrowing population crisis without the One Child Policy? The policy was a necessity to diminish the population in the future. The births prevented by the one-child policy was 400 million, stated Alexandra Paul, author of “A New One Child Policy” from Huffington Post. Today’s current population is drawing near one and a half billion. Without the one-child policy, the population today would be around 2 billion. How many land masses would China have to purchase from other countries if there are 2 billion people to feed? How would this affect the economy? How many

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