So the Chinese government basically don’t want there citizens to have any children but they knew that they could not enforce that idea as it was too immoral because god intended humans to reproduce. Over 10 million couples have signed the pledge of the one child policy.
Violating the policy!!!
But if a couple violate their one child policy agreement they must pay back maternity, medical and childcare expenses as well as pay fines (normally a year’s salary), no more free schooling and they receive loss of pensions jobs and housing. Before couples try to conceive they must get permission and a licence from the local authorities. In some areas of China the local authorities are strict with giving permission and licenses to couples to allow them to have a child, and abortions are strongly encouraged. Every year the Chinese government gives every area in China a quota (a quote on how many births that the citizens in that area are allowed to have.)
Thing the chinese people do to escape the government
To escape the Chinese government and their cruel one child policy regime some women go to the length of giving birth in secret and concealing their family. But most pregnant women having a second child are forced into abortions mainly by the army as China is a communist state and sometimes the pregnant are even forced into exile. These so called rules to ensure development at a safe pace can sometimes traumatise and mentally scare couples for life. These measures are taken place although many religions encourage starting families and having a large amount of children. In addition it is in Chinese culture and tradition to have many children beginning from the late emperor Yangdi (AD 581-618) who had many wives for the purpose of producing many children so this makes the one child policy controversial.
making the policy more realistic
To make their one child policy more realistic, enforceable and practical the Chinese government legalised abortions and were strongly in favour of them, set up many clinics were they helped with birth control, encouraged abortions, and supplied free contraception and education about making the ‘family planning policy’ work.
40 years dependence not very realistic
Evan though the Chinese government took extreme measures to make their one child policy more realistic many Chinese citizens think it is still not practical enough. Now days the Chinese life expectancy is 70 years of age. So if a couple were to have a child they would have to be there for the child and support them for at least 40 years. So for many couples this is not practical mainly because they could not be there for their child when he/she might need it most due to the fact that one of the rules enforced by the One child policy is to marry later after the age of 40. But the question is did the Chinese government employ this by purpose being extremely ingenious and sly or by mistake being extremely foolish and unpractical?
loop hole going abroad
If a woman tried to go abroad and have a child it would not be a very good loophole
to brake through the binds of the one child policy as she would not be permitted to re- enter China. There were exceptions to this rule but there was not a very good chance of being accepted back into China, as only members of certain minorities that have a very small population were let back into China to continue with their large families. This was a clever and cunning move by the Chinese government as only 1% of the population of China belonged to certain minority groups.
at the begging of the 1 child policy boys better than girls
At the begging of the one child policy people living in rural areas were allowed to have a second child if the first was a girl, but this soon changed as it was soon decided that they were only allowed to have one child. Traditionally boys have been valued more highly than girls have because boys keep the family name going and are expected to look after their parents when they become elderly where as girls join another family and change their surname when they get married. This is tradition all through out china not just in rural areas. Most couples who live in the city have signed the pledge of the one child policy, and have stuck by it mainly because couples who live in the city are less attached to tradition, they are more educated so they are more likely to pursue a career and don’t really have the time or space for a large family. But couples in the country side have not accepted the one child policy as easy as the city couples because they believe in tradition and they desperately want a son so that he can keep the family name going and look after his parents when they become senior citizens. This is one of the many reasons why there is an increasing amount of abandoned and orphaned girls in China, as well as a huge gender difference in China. To challenge this lots of births are not recorded and tests to find out the sex of the baby before it is born are now banned.
boys in other countries gender difference
Gender difference
In 1994 51.5% of the recorded Chinese population was male and 48.5% were female this began to cause a huge gender imbalance. In 1995, there were 118 boys under the age of 5 for every 100 girls born in China. But in the rest of the world 106 boys are born for every 100 girls born. That’s why there are about 90 million bachelors who can not find wives in China (it is likely to continue in this pattern in the future.) This has caused a crime wave in some areas of China were it has become common for women to get kidnapped and sold as wives. This is only a minor extent of the damaged caused by the One child policy.
TRADITION FAILOR
There has been a large reduction of the tradition of caring for the elders of your family in China, although Chinese children have been taught to respect and care for their elders when they become elderly since the1100’s. In 1996 the Chinese government passed a law to punish any offspring who don’t support their elders. As the population of senior citizens start to become more then the population of people who work the problem will only get worse.
When the communists came it’s their entire fault
China’s population has been growing slowly for most of its history. At first the birth rate was high and the death rate was also high. In the 1950’s the Chinese life expectancy was 40 years of age. In a thousand years China’s population doubled from 50 million to 100 million. It took forty years for the population to double from 500 million to 1 000 million. The communists gained power of China in 1949 and encouraged the population to grow, so it is basically there fault that the China’s PGR has spiralled out of control so badly because if they hadn’t encouraged their population to grow, it might not have been such a problem as it has become now.
To make the situation worse the death rate started fall due to improvements in living conditions, so the population started to grow frighteningly. Since 1949 the average life expectancy in China has risen from 40 years of age to about 70 years of age. The communists encourage the population to grow even though they suspected that it might become a problem, because they saw the large population of China in a very selfish way. Their point of view was, each person is an extra pair of hands to help defend and develop the country but this view came back to haunt them.
answer to question by government official
When Vice-Premier Zou Jiahua was asked why the one child policy was so cruel. He replied, “If the population problem is not dealt with, it will be impossible to ensure healthy economic and social development.
is the 1 child policy a success
According to the Chinese government, China’s one child policy was a success as the PGR has been reduced by 200 million less than it would have been with out the one child policy.
change in family formation
Now a normal family is a 4-2-1 system that consists of four grandparents, 2 parents and 1 child. Because of this many Chinese children become very spoiled and overweight they are often called “little emperors and empresses.” In some areas there has been a rise in juvenile misbehaviour, crime and violence and lots of people say it is due to the change in family structure, for making the young Chinese expect more attention.
What the Chinese people think
Many Chinese citizens believe that their government is cruel and are basically telling their citizens how to live their lives, like they are gods.
Many people from the west expect this sort of behaviour from the communist Chinese government as they have learnt from the Russian communism party. Although communism aim is to give equal rites to all.
Effect on the rest of Asia’s PGR
China’s one Child policy has also had an effect on the rest of Asia’s PGR as it has also started to slow down because they didn’t want to face the same problems as the Chinese.
OTHER PROBLEMS THAT CHINA MIGHT FACE IN THE FUTURE DUE TO THE RAPIDLY INCREASING PGR AND THE ONE CHILD POLICY:
In the future China could face many problems due to the rapidly increasing population of China and the one child policy such as worries over the fact if China will be able to feed its population.
Mountains and deserts take up Two thirds of China and only 10% of the land is available for cultivation (farming).
At the moment China is struggling to feed all of its population, and if the Chinese PGR continues to grow rapidly it will not be able to produce enough food to feed their population this could cause billions of deaths. If the Chinese PGR continues to grow at the current pace the Chinese population will reach 1.5 billion by 2015 that means it would have multiplied by three in fewer than three years. The amount of quantity of land (arable land) is decreasing and the growth rate in grain production has begun to slow down.
DROUGHT BASICALY FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another worry is over droughts or famine.
If a severe drought or famine were to occur, many people would be sure to die even if the rest of the world tried to help. Because first of all the Chinese government are petty and stubborn at times and because it takes time to gather together enormously large amounts of food.
Can the Chinese government convince western countries that it has an improving human rights record?
One of the largest worries factors that the Chinese government face is trying to improve their appalling human rite’s record.
Lots of people in Western countries feel that China has a poor human rites record.
Because of the way that the Chinese government treats their population, how they force abortions and the one child policy and the bad conditions of orphans. This is an important issue because the USA and many other countries wants to see a better record of human rites before giving the Chinese more permission to trade with western countries.
PROOF OF THE PGR CRISIS AND THE FAILIOR OF THE ONE CHILD POLICY
There is lots of proof to show that the Chinese are facing a terrible PGR dilemma and that the one child policy enforced by the Chinese government is not achieving the results expected of it. In Shanghai one of the most crowded cities in China the population has grown from 5 million in 1948 to about 14 million in 1993 many people are outraged by this, considering the cruelty and hurt caused by the notorious one child policy and inflicted on the Chinese citizens. I think that this is simply un-acceptable. China’s population has grown from 540 million in 1949 to 1.1 billion in 1990 doesn’t this prove that the one child policy is not sufficient enough to continue. China’s population was equivalent to a quarter of the rest of the world’s population in 1999 this goes on to show no improvements in the Chinese PGR crisis. In my point of view the one child policy must be taken out of action.
The end
China has the largest population in the world and I understand the dilemma that the
Chinese government is facing is very tough but I don’t think introducing a one child policy was the right way to go about solving it as they violate many human rites laws and it is immoral and indecent. The one child policy is controversial because the Chinese traditionally had large families. I think that China should have consulted the United Nations about how to resolve their predicament.
Population density’s
The West of China has about 10% of the population living in 60% of the land area. Where as some areas have less than 1 person per kilometre squared.
The highest population densities are found in the eastern lowlands. The floodplains in
the eastern lowlands have fertile soils and longer growing seasons which contributes to the population being so high in those areas.