Evaluate the success and wider consequences of China’s One Child Policy
- Impact on health care and childbearing attitudes:
- Has allowed greater quality of maternal care and a reduction in death and injury associated with child-birth.
- Pregnant women now receive help to monitor the progress of their pregnancy, and also their wider health issues.
- A “Care for Girls” program has been created to reduce the prejudices against women, especially in rural and under-developed areas, through education and funding.
- Many people have also come to view the policy as beneficial, and now view one child as being enough.
- Increased savings rate:
- Individual savings rates have increased since the One Child Policy was introduced.
- The average Chinese person now spends less money on child related items, and they therefore have more expendable income with which to invest.
- Due to the uncertainty of whether a child will later be able to provide for its parents, many parents have chosen to save money for later life.