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    The one-child policy was introduced in China in 1979 to control the country's rapidly growing population. It led families to favor sons over daughters, resulting in 336 million forced abortions. This gender imbalance means that in some villages today there are significantly more men than women, making it difficult for many men to find wives or have children of their own. The policy also backfired by lowering the birth rate more than intended, endangering China's population long-term by making it difficult for the population to reproduce at replacement levels. While initially meant to control population growth, the one-child policy has caused unforeseen problems and should be ended to avoid further issues stemming from the gender imbalance and low fertility rates it has created.

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    The one-child policy was introduced in China in 1979 to control the country's rapidly growing population. It led families to favor sons over daughters, resulting in 336 million forced abortions. This gender imbalance means that in some villages today there are significantly more men than women, making it difficult for many men to find wives or have children of their own. The policy also backfired by lowering the birth rate more than intended, endangering China's population long-term by making it difficult for the population to reproduce at replacement levels. While initially meant to control population growth, the one-child policy has caused unforeseen problems and should be ended to avoid further issues stemming from the gender imbalance and low fertility rates it has created.

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    The one-child policy was introduced in China in 1979 to control the country's rapidly growing population. It led families to favor sons over daughters, resulting in 336 million forced abortions. This gender imbalance means that in some villages today there are significantly more men than women, making it difficult for many men to find wives or have children of their own. The policy also backfired by lowering the birth rate more than intended, endangering China's population long-term by making it difficult for the population to reproduce at replacement levels. While initially meant to control population growth, the one-child policy has caused unforeseen problems and should be ended to avoid further issues stemming from the gender imbalance and low fertility rates it has created.

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    Dominique Rosario

    Webster
    English 3-2
    1/29/14

    Design a self-directed prompt, take a stand and


    respond to it.

    One Child Policy


    Imagine being told one day that you could only have one child. What if it was your dream
    to have a family of four? Being told that you could never have your dream family was the reality
    for all of the married couples in China in 1979. Being told this made couples desire a boy to pass
    on their family name, but this created many more problems for China. Since 1980 over 336
    million forced abortions have taken place in China under the one child policy (Eifler). Chinas
    fast rising population was growing toward 1 billion people. The government became desperate to
    lower their high increase rate of 1.3% and the one child policy was born. The government
    believed this policy would solve the problem of their growing population. And it did end up
    lowering the increase rate of China, but with more problems as a consequence. The one-child
    policy created a huge gender imbalance and ended up being a larger problem than a solution for
    China.
    Because of the one child policy, girls were not only unfavorable but rejected by most
    families in China. Women who found out they were having a girl would have abortions made
    possible [with] ultrasound sex determination (Pletcher). Girls who were born under the policy
    were mostly abandoned, placed in orphanages, and even infanticide occurred so the
    mother could have another child that was hopefully a boy (Pletcher). Mothers who kept their
    daughters and tried again for a boy were forced to get abortions. The female population in China
    is continuing to get smaller and smaller because of the policy and because of this imbalance
    China is experiencing other problems as well.
    The one child policy doesnt just effect the girls, it has serious drawbacks for the boys as
    well. Boys are the more favorable sex because they will be able to pass down the family name
    when girls cannot. Each year 20-50 more boys are born than girls leaving entire villages filled
    only with men. The bachelors of these villages loose hope each year of ever finding a wife to
    marry. These men will never be able to pass down their family name because of the extremely
    small female population. Without females, the Chinese race is at risk to die out because of the
    inability to reproduce. The government could not have predicted such a disastrous outcome to
    their attempt to lessen their population.
    The one-child policy in China was started in 1979 to keep birthrates down and has been
    upheld ever since. High-level officials hand out birthrate targets to state and local officials, which
    will be judged on how well they met the goals. And on the other hand, the high-level officials
    also forbid state and local officials to enforce the policy with forced abortions and sterilizations.
    These two policies contradict one another. How can the state and local officials meet their lower
    birthrate goals if they cannot enforce forced abortions and sterilizations? (Fisher).
    In the beginning of the one-child policy, the Chinese government only wanted to lower
    the population. Instead the government created many problems that can only be fixed by ending
    the policy all together. The one child policy has created an imbalance in genders, and has
    lowered the female population by so much that reproduction is becoming slimmer and slimmer.

    Unless the one-child policy is stopped completely, the Chinese population is in danger of dying
    out all-together.

    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1710568/one-child-policy
    http://www.allgirlsallowed.org/one-child-policy-statistics
    http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/china-population-women-bachelor-marriage
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/15/why-chinas-one-child-policystill-leads-to-forced-abortions-and-always-will/

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