The Effects the of One-Child Policy in China

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October 9 , 2009 The Effects the of One-Child Policy in China What are the results of the one-child policy in China? 30 years ago, the Chinese government launched the policy of one child per family. At that time, China, which has seven percent of the world's arable land, is home to one quarter of the world's population. The Chinese government decided that it was necessary to impose a one-child policy in hopes of economic reform. Delayed marriage, delayed childbearing age, and the spacing of births, which in exceptional cases, are forms of restrictions imposed for the planning of family size. The population target set by the Government of China was 1.2 billion by the year 2000, but instead it was 1.27 billion in 2000, which was near to the government target. The Chinese government claims that this policy prevented the growth of population by nearly three hundred million people. The rate of reproduction for the Chinese family was 2.9 in 1979 and dropped down to 1.7 in 2004. For example, in Beijing, which is the largest city in China, more than half of the families have only one child ( Hesketh and Wei Xing, par 1-7). Even though some people think that China’s policy of one child will improve China’s future, the policy violates basic human rights, creates an imbalance in the population, and produces many psychological problems with negative social impacts. The Chinese government claims that the application of a strict one-child policy exists for the well-being of Chinese society, and the methods used to implement this policy are under legitimate means. However, the measures forced the application of a one-child policy incompatible with human rights and led to violations of human rights. First, the one-child policy applies to the vast majority of people, but does not apply to the wealthy people who can afford to buy their way out of this
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