Chinas One Child Policy

Chinas One Child Policy

1. Designed To Solve A Problem Of Over Population To Ensure Enough Health Care, Education, Housing, Jobs And Food

2. Introduced in 1979

3. Contraception And Sterilisation Heavily Encouraged

4. Incentives

   • Cash Bonus
   • Better Child Care
   • Free Medical Care
   • Longer Maternity Leave
   • Extra Month Salaries Until The Child Is 14 Years Old
   • Better Choice Of Housing
   • Free Education

5. Disincentives

   • People Are Monitoared By Granny Police
   • Couples Had To Pledge Not To Have More Children
   • Unmarried People Are Persuaded To Post Phone Marriage

6. Punishments For Not Having One Child

   • Sacked From Job
   • Heavy Fines
   • Privliges Lost If Second Child Comes Along

7. Recent Changes

   • If Both Parents Were Only Children They Can Have A Second Child
   • If Both Parents Work In High Risk Jobs Then 2nd Child Is Allowed
   • Wealthy Parents Will Often Pay The Fine To Have A Second Or Third Child
   • In Rural Areas People Are Allowed To Have More Then 1 Child Especially If The 1st Child Is A Girl
   • 2nd Child Is Allowed If 1st First Child Is Disabled Or Killed In A Natural Disaster
   • The Policy Does Not Apply To Ethnic Minority Groups
   • Some Parents Lie About The Number Of Children They Have

8. Positive Impacts

   • Population Is Declining

9. Negative Impacts

   • Thousands Of Kids Up For Adoption, Especially Girls
   • Nation Prefers Boys, 15% More In Some Schools
   • Birth Rate Collapse
   • Obesity Problems
   • Over 400 Million Have Been Aborted
   • 300 000 More Men The Women

10. Advanteges

    • Both Parents are able to work rather then worry about child care
    • Medical and educational benefits for the child
    • Children Get More Time With Their Parents
    • The Country Was Too Cramped
    • People were dying of starvation before
    • not enough shelter for people before

11. Disadvanteges

    • Abortion rate has gone up( especially girls)
    • Harsh Punishments go against human rights
    • Nobody too look after elderly
    • Abandoned Babies, Particularly baby girls
    • Killing baby girls increased when introduced