The One-Child Policy In China

106 souls leave their bodies behind for their families to mourn over every single minute on this planet, death not taking age into rumination (WorldDeath1). Though someone dying may seem like the worst thing to ever occur, but it is actually detrimental in keeping the planet alive. 255 first breaths are taken each minute throughout the whole world (Current1). Humans are multiplying more than they are dying and the issue or overpopulation is becoming more and more palpable in everyday life. To assist in controlling rapid population growth, many things can be done. Putting a limit on how many children a man and woman can have, sending groups of people to other planets to populate, and educating people on birth control to help prevent unwanted pregnancies are just some ways to help slow down the booming population growth.

In China, there was a One-Child policy fully put in place in 1980 to help press a brake on the growing populace (History1). Though this policy was recently tweaked, there is still currently a child limit policy in China based off of the One-Child policy. In placing limits on the amount of children a woman can have, China tells that, “Authorities claim that the policy has prevented more than 250 million births between 1980 and 2000, and 400 million births from about 1979 to 2011”(One1). By preventing all of these births, the population of the world was not affected as greatly by a baby boom like it would have been if these pregnancies had been carried