One Child Policy

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One Child Policy China, the nation with the largest population, has adopted a series of measures to control the growth of population. As one of the policies, the one child policy has been carried out for nearly forty years. It is undeniable that it has achieved good results, which reduced the pressure of community resources and environment, as well. Nevertheless, while people discuss the very success of one child policy of China, it brings some social problem. First, the one child policy has awakened eugenics. Actually, the one child policy is different between urban cities and countrysides. In countrysides, if the first child is a girl, families are allowed to have another child after five years. However, families in urban city can only have one child no matter is boy or girl. One truth is that most scientists, top-notch personnel and elites concentrate in urban cities. They have high intelligence and good economic capacity to foster children. However, the one child policy has limited their fertility, which awakened eugenics. On the contrary, people who live in the countryside have poor income, and lower quality compared with people in cities, but they do not have constraints of the policy. If current trends continue, the conditions will be unfavorable for the improvement of the population quality. Second, on the control, the birth control policy contributes to the acceleration of Chinese aging of people; the grant age pension will face great pressure. Since 2005, China's elderly people aged over 60 with one-tenth portion of the population, which means China has entered the aging society. Under the "4-2-1" family structure (4 means grandparents, 2 means parents, 1 means children), the children of each family will get married in 20 years. Then the elder they have to support will be 7 to 8. It will cause a heavy burden of the person. Therefore, reaching the aging
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