CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE 1. China's One-Child Policy -. Is it really beneficial? The One-Child policy was introduced in 1979 when the Chinese government realized their population was increasing at a dangerously rapid speed. They had enforced a policy where each couple was allowed only one child. The One-Child Policy was not a good idea because it was unnecessary, it put strain on families who relied on their children for work, and created huge emotional damage to the citizens. The policy was not necessary because it did not reflect a decent decrease in population at all. In document A, it is evident that even after the policy was enforced in 1980, the population was still rapidly increasing. There was no sign of a lower birth rate in the period of time the policy took place. World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. Also in document B, Feng Wang and Cai Yong state that by the time the One-Child Policy was even introduced, China had already been going through a great fertility reduction. Fertility rates went from 5.8 to 2.7 in just nine years before the policy took place. Wand and Yong also write that, "The claim by Chinese officials that the one child policy has helped avert 400 million births simply cannot be substantiated by facts." This corroborates that the policy is truly unnecessary. …show more content…
For example, farmer families, manual labor ancestries, etc. People who lived in rural parts of China, relied on family and children to keep their jobs and themselves alive. In Document B, the authors write, "To enforce a policy that is so extreme and unpopular for families who relied on children for labor and old age support, physical abuses and violence would be inevitable." The elderly rely on young people to help them survive and live their last years. Abruptly trying to cut down the population would be dangerous to those elderly and family