Features & Impacts of Chinas 1 Child Policy

Features & Impacts of Chinas 1 Child Policy

1. Negative Impact

   • 60million abortions
     • especially with girls
   • broken families
   • suited rural people but not urban people
   • forced marrige
   • kidnaping
   • little emperor - spoiled/selfish children
   • gender imbalance
   • have an ageing population
     • there are more elderly people than younger
       • not such a big workforce - from the young

2. positive impacts

   • better life quality
   • lower fertility rate
   • people who stick to the 1 child policy are given 10% wave bonus
     • within other benefits
   • china doesn't contribute as much to climate change (global warming)
   • 400 million children being born - than if they didn't have the policy
   • less resources bing used = less polution
   • little emperor
     • only 1 child per family = very spoiled children
     • emperor = boy (a boy is always a preference and they're aware of that)
   • less pressure on the environment

3. why need it?

   • economical
     • ore children = use of more resources
     • children are expensive
   • social
     • decreased popualtion growtj
     • if population had kept growing at such rate the country would face a decrease in quality of life
   • environmental
     • less use of resources
     • 21.4% of the world's population is there, but only 7% of the world's land

4. Features

   • aborted baby girls
   • two children weer allowed in rural ares
     • they needed children
       • help in the farm
       • boys were a huge preference
         • they had a girl, they had the right to try again for a boy
   • ople who kept the policy had many advantages - economically
     • free scholing
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   • arted in 1979
   • soft policy -> get married later = have fewer children
   • had to get registered to have a child
   • a carrot and a stick = if you want an animal to do something you give it a carrot - to punish someone you would use a stick
     • there were many insentives to encorage 1 child
   • to not let your country down