Zusammenfassung der Ressource
China's One Child
Policy
- Why the policy was
introduced..
- Created as a humanitarian response to
China's over-population problem
- There were (2009) 1,330,000,000 people
living in China and they all need water, food,
housing, education, jobs, advancement
opportunity, and a myraiad of other
requirements.
- Any large increase to the
existing population would
prevent economic and
social stability for China's
people.
- Negative Impacts
- There is a bigger men to women
ratio in China
- Means there are less wives
- Less children (not a
positive) because people
are killing their daughters
- There are boys being
kidnapped off the streets
- A lot of girls are being
put up for adoption
- If you are an only
child you are
allowed to have two
children (unfair and
not helping the
population much)
- Because that's the same as
the parent having two
children in the 1st place and
one giving birth.
- Positive Impacts
- Families who only have 1
child get a 'one child glory
certificate' which entitles
them to an annual bonus
on their salary up until the
child is 14.
- It's good for population
management.
- It's decreased the
population by over a
half
- Families who
stick to the
policy will get
HUGE bonuses
- Features
- Only applies to registered urban families
Rural families and protected minorities
may have more than 1 child.
- Couples may have 1 child
every 10 years.
- Couples having more that 1
child within a 10 year period
are subject to social
disincentives
- Multiple births (twins,
triplets etc) are exempt
from the policy
- Parents whose 1st child is
physically handicapped, mentally
handicapped or dies may have a
2nd child
- Waivers of the policy are
selectively granted for hardship
causes
- Such As: Adoption of
deceased relative's orphan
- A limited number of
municipalities will switch to
a 2 child policy within the
next few years.
- Shanghai is the most prominicent
locale making this change
- Timeline of how policies have changed
- 1949: Mao wanted a big population and so banned contraceptives and birth
control
- 1958-61: Mao attempted to use China's ever growing population to develop
China's economy but the results were a disaster and between 18-33 million
people died of famine.
- 1961-1966: Deng Xiaping & Liu Shaoqisideline Mao and bring back sanity to
China by easing state controls and importing grain from abroad to break the
famine. Population growth takes off again.
- 1966-1976: Mao is back in power and attempts to destroy/weaken the
traditional & cultural fundamentals of Chinese society. The result is
chaos and an almost destruction of the Chinese economy &education
system. attempts to control the population fail & the population
continues to grow out of control.
- 1976 -: Mao is gone. Zhaoping has the job of
resurrecting the economy & improving the
standard of living. In 1978 the 1 Child Policy was
introduced & it was applied to all 1st born children
of 1979.