CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE 1. The One-Child policy was a very harsh and impactful few decades for China's citizens. Considering this, the One-Child Policy was a horrible idea and putting the policy in place was not smart. The One-Child Policy impacted families very negatively, the sex ratio was highly impacted, and the point of view from Xiao Xuan was very impactful. To start off, the One-Child Policy has had a huge impact on families living in China. Feng Wang and Cai Yong both stated, "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...." (Document B) Having to enforce a policy like this one is horrible; and families are being forced to alter kin relations; in other words, the families are having to change ties based on marriage and Families should never be put in this situation in the first place and the One- Child Policy pushed this problem to a different level. …show more content…
However, Xiao Xuan's opinion shows the negative impact. Xiao stated "I used to cut myself on my wrist after being yelled at by my mom and dad because I didn't know who I should talk or turn to. "(Document F) Xiao also stated "I was like that for almost two years, but I am very tough so I made it through." (Document F) These two quotes that Xiao quoted expressed how hard it was being an only child. As well as cutting herself off the wrist because she had no one to talk to is heartbreaking. She said she wanted siblings to talk too, however, the One-Child Policy prevented that. Having Xiao express her frustration with the One-Child Policy is important and needs to be
In our world, millions of babies are being born everyday. However, in China, the number of babies being born is too much for their country. So the government decided to make a policy called the one-child policy. This policy limited families in China to only having one kid. Was the one child policy a good or bad idea? After researching the topic, I discovered that it was a bad idea because of multiple reasons. These reasons were because children would be too lonely with siblings, it cost a lot of money that wasn’t needed, and because there are less children for jobs.
Similarly, the relationship expectations in Chinese customs and traditions were strongly held onto. The daughters of the Chinese family were considered as a shame for the family. The sons of the family were given more honour than the daughters. In addition, some daughters were even discriminated. The only daughter in the family, Liang had to hear her grandmothers taunt: “If you want a place in this world [...] do not be born as a girl child” (Choy 27). The girls from the Chinese family were considered useless. They were always looked down upon in the family; they felt as if the girls cannot provide a family with wealth, this attitude would really affect the parents from Chinese family preferred boys as they thought; boys could work and provide the family income. Due to Chinese culture preference to having boys, girls often did not have the right to live. In the Chinese ethnicity, the family always obeyed the elder’s decision. When the family was trying to adapt to the new country and they were trying to learn th...
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.
It is clear that China’s one child policy has affected Chinese society in multiple ways. The policy has resulted in corruption in the Chinese government, an abuse of women’s rights, female feticide, and an imbalance in the gender ratio, and potential problems with China’s elderly and younger populations. The Chinese government decided to implement a one child policy in order to counter the effects of rapid population growth. The question to ask is if the benefits of population control really do outweigh the problems the policy has created in Chinese society. It will be interesting to see if the policy continues to affect Chinese culture in the future, and how the changes that have been recently made play out.
Xiao Xun in document F, talks about her struggles as a child of the One-Child Policy. She explains that she "used to cut [herself] on [her] wrist after being yelled at by her mom and dad because [she] didn't know who to talk to or turn to. " The document even mentions a note from NPR about 58 percent of Chinese children admitted to being lonely and even more selfish. These stories and sources highlight a dramatic issue of the One-Child Policy: the damage it has done to the youths in their mental and societal mindsets.
My parents told me that they had a good life back at China, where they grew up, my father told me that they had a pretty nice life going on back there. Why they came here is beyond my comprehension, my father told me that they had a pretty good income back there, and life was good. Why they came here stumped me and make me thought why and so I asked, they gave me vague answers, but one of the reasons was because my parents were having their first child, which was my big sister. At China, there is this policy, the one child policy, only one child, it’s because China is overpopulated. Furthermore that boys were more favored than girls were. If they were to have an only my sister, I wouldn’t be born today nor my little brother. I later discovered that a good reason why to come here, for opportunity.
Seeing that a majority of the One-Child Policy’s aftermath had counteractive impacts, one which benefited China was the unexpected increase in GDP per capita. According to The Conversation by Jane Golley’s “The Costs and Benefits of China’s One-Child Policy”, approximately one-fourth of China’s per capita GDP growth within the last thirty years was due to this policy. As a result, “Better nutrition, rising levels of education, longer life expectancies, and higher living standards for the vast majority of Chinese people,” were expected (Document D1). Nevertheless, this singular enhancement was not enough to outweigh the adversity. There were of course drawbacks to acquiring few workers and many more dependents, within the population.
CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE 1. China's one policy, which was put into effect in 1979, was an extremely harsh action and caused a lot of pain for the Chinese population and should be criticized for going against human rights. Urban couples are restricted to having only one child by the rule, and failure to do so will lead to severe consequences. The goal of this policy was to control the rapid population growth and promote economic advancement to the country. The one-child policy was not a good idea because the policy's impact on the Chinese population can be easily determined by the costs and consequences.
CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE 1. Imagine a world where the future of an entire nation hangs on the decision of one family to have only one child. This is the reality of China's controversial One-Child Policy. This was a social experiment that shaped China's generation and left a lasting impact on the country. China's One-Child Policy was a necessary measure to control population growth, and address social, economic, and environmental obstacles as it aimed to alleviate scarcity of resources, improve living standards, and promote sustainable development in its country.
CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE 1. Did it really help the problem, or did it make it worse? China's one - child policy is detrimental to its population. The policy was supposed to help the rapidly growing population rate. They feared that if the population rate got too high, there wouldn't be enough to provide for them.
China's one-child policy was not beneficial, because it put economic stress on only children, left only children with emotional problems, and was unnecessary due to already dropping fertility rates. Firstly, the economic stress the policy put on only children was extremely harmful. As document E brings out,"...the policy places a huge burden on single Chinese children at the bottom of the resulting '4,2,1' family structure. " Document E. Life is stressful enough for a young adult, but for an only child under China's policy it gets much worse.
Due to the policy, every Han Chinese couple is only allowed to have one child in an attempt to curve China's out of control population growth. However, China's one child policy was not a good idea because it didn't significantly impact the population, created an imbalanced sex ratio, and caused emotional trauma for families and only children. The first reason why the policy was not a good idea is because it didn't impact the population enough to make the need for the policy viable. During the
Over population has been a global issue for decades. Medical advances have made it possible for people to live longer and have multiple births, which are just some of the factors contributing to this social problem. Many countries have attempted to battle this issue, but none as intensely as China. China allows the government to have full control over family planning to help reduce the population. In 1979 China created a policy called the "One Child Law" which limits couples to only one child. Although the Chinese government hopes to curb the population boom and benefit society, the One Child Policy has morally questionable results, negative impacts on Chinese society, which should be changed.
Who should serve as the ultimate decision maker in deciding how many children a person can have? Imagine having a child that does not know what it feels like to have a sibling. In China, the law “One Child Policy” prohibits families from having more than one child. People around the world need to take action and help repeal the law. This law was enacted to keep the population from growing. Many people are starting to rebel and protests brake out and take innocent lives. The “One Child Policy” should be abolished because it violates human rights and creates other problems for China. Although there are some positive effects to this law, the negative effects outweigh the positive ones.
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