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China One Child Policy

Writer’s Point

The writers point is the issue of one-child policy in China. This one child policy in China was introduced by Deng Xiaoping, which was aimed at regulation of the rapid growing population of the country. Chinese government had the feeling that their population was growing at an alarming rate, thus adopted this strategy to regulate it as well as births in the country.

Support of the point

Different articles and reports presented by both governmental and non-governmental organizations have indicated that the population growth rate of China is extremely high, which actually calls for a remedy to be incorporated. As a result of this, the one child policy was induced, though it was stipulated to take like two years in operation, it is actually in existence to date. It was a part of family planning program which was initiated for general control of the population of the country (Feng, Gu, & Cai, 2016). One child policy was initiated as a subsidy to the other existing family planning techniques.

What is the noteworthy about this support and its effectiveness?

This policy has been effective to some extend in that it has been able to control the general population of china. However, there are notable flaws and issues that have resulted from this policy. It has resulted in to increased pressure especially to women who are having subsequent births as well as second pregnancies by forcing sterilization, which can be viewed as a violation of human rights (Cao, Cumming & Wang, 2015). As well, other notable issues associated with this policy include the following: decrease in fertility rate, declination in the overall population growth, an estimation of 400 million births have been able to be controlled, disparity in sex ratio due to the preference of boys to girls as well as the introduction of incentives to the individuals obeying the policy, such as being offered employment opportunities.

Reference

Cao, J., Cumming, D., & Wang, X. (2015). One-child policy and family firms in China. Journal of Corporate Finance, 33, 317-329.

Feng, W., Gu, B., & Cai, Y. (2016). The end of China's one‐child policy. Studies in family planning, 47(1), 83-86.