Dbq China's One Child Policy

One-Child Policy
In China the people struggle to find food because the population is exceeding the normal numbers, leading the country to the creation of a one-child policy in order to control it. The one-child policy means that each couple is only allowed to have one child and is fined if they conceive more. This controversial situation has caused many questions for example: Is only being limited to having one child a good idea to reduce China's population and economy? The one-child policy is in my opinion a good idea, although it comes with many sacrifices. Another reason people benefited from the policy is that with the rule of only being able to give birth to one child the parents were able to give the child their attention and resources.

In document F (Louisa Lim,”China’s ‘Little Emperors’ Lucky, Yet Lonely in Life,” NPR, November, 2010) it provides the perspective of how two different children felt being an only child.
Since the one-child policy was applied in 1980 it has positively affected the people and the environment in China.

In document D (Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler, Governing China's Population, 2005.) it shows how it has affected the single daughters in china called singleton daughters.With the one-child policy the singleton daughters benefit from the policy because it causes there to be less people to complete the job positions with but it also opens up a whole lot of other new jobs. For example the singleton daughters can now easily become bilingual secretaries, a public relation or a fashion model. Another example of how the policy has positively helped China is that with the policy the environment has been changing. In document C (Jonathan Watts,“ China's one-child policy means benefits for parents - if they follow the rules,” The Guardian, October 25, 2011.) it provides studies that show how the one child policy has affected the living environments for the people in Henan, one of the most crowded province in the world’s most populous nations. In one of the studies in the document it shows how the policy has kept the sulfur dioxide emissions down by 17.6%, which is great because sulfur dioxide is a very dangerous gas which is the major cause of asthma and other bronchial infections. In the same study it also reveals how the policy has affected the water resource, it states that they have reduced the water pollution to 30.8%. All these changes in the environment are excellent because it provides people in China with a better lifestyle. In

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China has also benefited from the one-child policy because they are able to keep the population levels low which leads there to be less spread of disease. The document E (Laura Fitzpatrick, “A brief history of China's one-child Policy,” Time, July 27, 2009.) and Document A (Population Division of the Department of Economics and Social Affairs, United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. ) it demonstrates how the over population had decreased or is going to decrease later in the future. In document A it is a preview of how the population numbers will sooner or later decrease. The document supports but not fully because it states that the population will still be increasing before it eventually decreases. Nevertheless in document E the studies demonstrates how the one child policy can affect how many people conceive and give birth. In the main study it offers the information that by rewarding the people that only conceive one child with an award called “ Certificate of Honor for Single-Child Parents”