One Child Policy

Imagine you are a pregnant woman expecting your second child. You have the crib built, the clothes picked out, and the perfect named picked out for your baby. You have been waiting seven long months for your little of bundle of joy to arrive. But your little bundle of joy is taken from you because you live in China, where the One Child Policy restricts you from having a second child. You never got to meet this little creation of yours because the Chinese government took the child away from you, forcing you to receive an abortion. This policy ripped apart millions of families in China. The one child policy violates personal freedom and basic human rights. China’s one child policy has greatly affected both males and females in their population.

Mentioned before women who were pregnant were forced to have an abortion. If a woman defied the one Child policy, she and the child would be negatively affected. In China, there is a tradition to have a male child instead of a female because males are considered to be stronger and are also preferred by the people of China. In this case, larger number of female babies have ended up homeless, on the street, or in orphanages, while more males babies were kept by their families (“Case Study: China”). As well if a woman did have a second child, most child went into hiding from being confiscated by the authorities (“How China’s One Child Policy Led to Forced Abortions”). Children were living in hiding, preventing them from ever being able to live a full and prosperous life. Imagine that? Imagine you never got the chance to go play outside freely or travel because if your were caught, you would be ripped away from your family because you are an illegal second child living in China. The one child policy did not just affect the woman having the children, it also affected innocent children who didn’t deserve the effect of the one child