Homework Help: Social Studies: World Issues: One Child Policy

This article is suggests that in many parts of China, the government is loosing its battle against the one-child policy, however their effort hasn't been in vain.

Since the late 1970s, China has enforced a population control which allowed couples to only have once child. The policy also told people at what age to marry, to have children, to use contraception, and to have an abortion. These controls often inspired violence against women that caused them to look to the free world for protection. This provoked strong opposition from many religious and political groups from around the world.

In many parts of China, the one child policy is now disappearing, and the local officials who once enforced the strict laws are now accepting money to let couples bend the rules. This is possible due to an economic growth in which families are now able to cope without government rewards for having only one child.

This economic growth is not necessarily a bad thing, as although it allows more children to be born, it also allows many other families to break out of poverty and have less children. This has resulted in a population growth of just 1% per annum, and China will stay well within its target of 1.3 billion by the year 2000.

The one-child-policy has made an impact on society for the better, as although many people suffered, and now many people are bending the rules, the policy made many people realize that by following the rules, you would not be punished. Also, it made people aware that even if they weren't going to follow the rules, they still should have smaller families.

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