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China's One Child Policy Dbq

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CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE 1. China's one child policy was a policy implemented in 1979 and was completely unnecessary. This policy was enforced by Mao Zedong, whose idea was originally to increase China's population. Due to China overpopulating, Mao created the idea which is known as the "one child policy". This policy controlled China's population, but also created lots of negative effects and issues such as additional effect on fertility rate, rise of sex ratio at birth, and cause of mental and social issues for children. Before the one child policy was enforced, China was going through a natural decrease in their fertility rate, but after the policy was enforced the fertility rate decreased even more. China's fertility rate was going through a "remarkably reduction, going from 5.8 births per woman in 1970 to 2.7 births per woman in 1979"(Document B). When China's one child policy was in place in 1979, the fertility rate was 2.7 births per woman. "From 1979 to 2008 China's fertility rate decreased, starting at 2.7 births per woman to 1.7 births per woman"(Document B). This shows that from 1970 to 2008 China's fertility rate decreased by a total of 4.1 births per woman. …show more content…

The cost of the one child policy was a rise in sex ratio which is "estimated 30 million or more Chinese men who will be looking for a wife in 2030 but won't be able to find one" (Document E). This prolonging effect created by the one child policy is bad because China's population will soon start to decrease exponentially due to less

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The OCP helped lower China's population. Here is why this helped China. In Document B Feng Wang and Cal Yong wrote, “ Even before it's inception, the one child policy was questioned for its necessity and it's enormous social costs” This right here shows to us that China was already struggling so they needed to slow the population before it got out of hand. Another reason is in Document A it shows us that before 1980 when the OCP went into effect the population was jumping 200 more people per 10 years.

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