Since about 1979 China has been trying to cope with their growing population. They set the one child policy as a temporary emergency policy to keep the birth rate down for the next couple of generations. If not for this policy the world’s population would have already hit 7 billion people. After this policy was implemented it has prevented 400 million births but China still has lingering effects. Due to this one child policy law many families prefer that their child is a male in order to keep the family name going. They also may abort their daughters, which can lead to sterilization if not properly done, or not take adequate care of them because they want their son to be strong, healthy and educated. Due to this China is estimating that due to their decline in fertility they will have an aging population. Also, for every 100 girls born there is 123 boys this ratio will cause there to be 30 million unmarried men by 2020.
They do not know what to do about their population because it is aging, unequal ratios and they are already limiting their citizens rights by only allowing one child per family. Each family that has more than one child can be forced to have an abortion or face a serious fine. Though I do think they did what they thought was best for the world’s population they still do not know how to cope with this. Some Chinese citizens feel that they wish they could have had siblings so they would not be so lonely but that isn’t what is best for the world. Many families also wish they could have bigger families, sort of the “nuclear” family in a sense. I don’t know what more there is left to do about the population. This isn't fair because it dictates how people must live, they are fining people because of families and it can dictate laws and societial norms and what is and is not acceptable. It goes alot deeper than the surface and we already live in a male dominated world. What are they going to do about the aging population and the fact that this generation has alot of infertility and the lack of women because of this one child policy?
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