What is the One Child Policy? When was it created?
The One Child Policy is a control policy of the chinese population, it restricts womens to only have one child each. This policy was instaured in 1979 and began to be applied the same year it was instaured. About 76 % of the chinese population's supports the One Child Policy, the chinese government impose rewards or penalties for having one child or more. For example, if you only have one child, you could have higher wages, retirement's funds, priority housing, school enrolment, and interest-free loans. In the other case, if you have more than one child, you would have to pay fines that could go up to $12,800 according where the family lives, the goverment create pressures to abort pregnancy, you can also have confiscated belongings, and could get fired from work. A second child could be alowed in certain cases by exceptions of the law, if the family lives in rural areas, if it's an ethnic minorities, if the first child is disabled, if the parents work in a high risk occupations, or if the children born overseas.
Where and Why?
The one child pollicy is in China, it was created because the population was growing bigger and bigger, with the one child policy an estimated 400 million births have been prevented.
How?
Before the one child policy China's fertility rate was at about 4.5, since the fertility rate has reduced to about 1.8
Since the one child policy has been instaured it has prevented over 400 million births about the same size as the united states of america's population.
Advantages of the One Child Policy
- Economic stability of the nation
- Increase in food supply
- Result more resources for children development
- Better health care
- Overall better living standard
- Increased saving rate (average for family expends due to fewer children)
- Reduce unemployement (more jobs are available)
Disadvantages of the One Child Policy
- Created presurres from the goverment to the populations
- Forced abortions and sterilizations
- huge gender imbalance in the young population
- Ageing population
- Fines, if second child
- killing baby girls
- The One Child Policy leaves one child to look after 2 parents and 4 grand-parents.
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