Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Impacts of China's
One Child Policy
- Problems
- Women were forced to have abortions -
stage of pregnancy was irrelavant
- Breach of human rights?
- Considered to be cruel by some
- Peoples' choices were
controlled by the government
- Women were persuaded to only have 1 child
by family members, workmates and the
'Granny Police' (older women in the village)
- Pressurised
- Local officials had power
over peoples' private lives
- Breach of
privacy
- Controlling
- Benefits
- Increased technology and
exploitation of resources has
improved peoples' standard of living
- Higher life
expectancy
- New industries have
developed
- More sources of
income
- More
money
- Decreased birth
rate
- An estimated 400 million
fewer people have been born
- Decreased rate of population
growth
- Economic Impacts
- Ageing
population
- More benefits required e.g
retirement
- More costs to the
government
- Smaller working age population (16-64)
- Less tax paid
- Less money available to the
government
- Social Impacts
- Infanticide - girls
aborted
- Led to a gender imbalance of 41
million more men
- Men struggle to find women to marry
- Ageing population
- 'Little Emperors'
- Only children spoilt by the attention
from family members
- Some family units may die out
- Surnames lost