Not So Great, One Child Policy Numerous babies killed and neglected to get that one perfect child. According to Mao Zedong, “People are the most precious.” Meaning he forced people to work to make the country rich like the United States. Which resulted in food shortage, and a devastating famine killing over 30 million people. As that happened, Zedong decided to keep the amount of children couples have short. Would China’s one child policy be beneficial to the country? China’s one child policy was a bad idea because even after it was put into action, numbers still skyrocketed, babes were being murdered, and children were suicidal and lonely. After the policy was put in place, the population still increased by a very large amount of people. In 2010 the population of the United States was a little under 300 million, by 2012 in China, their population had already reached 1.35 billion people! The policy didn’t seem to work all that well apparently.. The graph given in document A shows that China’s population is supposed to peek in 2030.From 1980 to 2010, the amount of people raised 360 million people. If the policy started in 1980, when China already had a population problem, then why did it increase such a great …show more content…
“With boys being viewed as culturally preferable, the practice of female infanticide-...” Female infanticide is basically killing infants who are born the female gender. They weren’t seen as lucky or successful in the future. The females were basically useless. “The resulting gender imbalance widened after 1986, when ultrasounds and abortions became easier to come by.” With abortions being easier to come by, they didn’t have to literally drown or throw away their babies, they could do it in a less heartbreaking way. Even if they did have a male child though, he could grow up to be lonely and depressed, it’s just