FREE ESSAY ON CHINAS ONE CHILD POLICY

CHINAS ONE CHILD POLICY

The success of China's economy over the last two decades would have been much less
impressive, if not impossible, had they decided on any other population policy? China's
family planing efforts have dropped the population growth from 3.3 percent in the
seventies. To the current rate of 1.6 percent, moreover, during this period the fertility
rate of Chinas women have dropped from 6 to 1.8 percent. The population of 65 years old
was only 66 million in 1990, and now is expected to grow 90 million by 2000, and 167
million by 2020. China being over 1/6 of our population is wise to adopt this policy for
themselves and to set an example for other developing countries. What is the one child
policy? Chinas one chilled policy is a way for it to control the population while
maintaining friendly relations with its people. The policy is like this; a mother may
only have only one child, if the child is born with a serious disability (and would be
unable to support the family in their old age) or if the child dies, then they are
allowed to have another child. By 1998, the population of China stood at 1.248 billion
and if not for the family planing program, they would be at 1.5 billion or more today.
Two decades ago, the average amount of children per family was eight now it is at about
1. China is a major contributor to the world population and with such little agricultural
land, is somewhat in a state of poverty and is now with the population growing at such a
rapid pace they would have been in an extreme state of poverty by the year 2050. China is
a communist country; which means every one has equal rights, services and an equal amount
of work. This is why the one child policy is so effective for them. Every industry has
its own family-planing agent who monitors and records the women who want to have a child.
If they are following the law, and they maintain a one hundred percent one child rate of
birth then the whole group receives extra benefits. This places pressure in the hands of
the people. If one person does not comply than everyone loses his or her benefits. I am
strongly in favor of Chinas one child policy. I also think that the Indians should adopt
this policy. Right now 83 percent of the Chines population can read and write, while only
53 percent of the Indians can read and write, this percent will only get lower with the
rise of the population. Education leads to smaller healthier families and there will be
more education with a lower population. There is also a strong relationship between a
mother's education and the infant mortality rate, if the mother has a better education
the child is more likely to survive infantry. In addition, the more educated the women
may have fewer children later in life. This is why it is crucial to cut population now if
we want it to stay lower later. Some would say that the one child policy is immoral, and
you cannot deny natural rights such as the amount of children one has. Well how much less
immoral is it to let your people live in poverty, with not enough food, clothing or
education to survive.
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