China's One-Child Policy DBQ
How can one policy destroy a country? In 1949, Mao Zedong and his communist won control over China. However, China’s population was over the roof and still growing. After an attempt with the Great Leap Forward, the Communist party came up with the one-child policy. One child policy meant couples can only have one child and if not obey they were fined or punished with sterilization and abortions. This policy did not affect anyone who was not Han Chinese (an ethnicity that made up 90 percent of China’s population) or anyone who was a single urban resident. Was China’s One-Child Policy a good idea? China’s one-child policy was not a good idea because of its effects on China’s future, it was unnecessary, and because of its emotional cost. China’s one-child policy was not a good idea due to its effects on China’s future. After the overcrowded issue became unavoidable, Chinese leaders were looking at tables that estimated the future population of China. Even after the one-child policy in 1980 China's population kept growing until getting to its peak in 2030 and began to decrease after that as the children in the one-child policy became elders and not enough people were in the workplace( Doc. A). The one-child policy was expected to
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The one-child policy resulted in unpreventable physical abuse and loneliness (Doc. B, C). China’s population was bigger than any other country in Europe. However, most kids grow up alone due to not having any siblings. Kids that didn't know where or to whom to talk to when encountering a fight or conflict with their parents had been physically hurting themselves and ruining their mental health (Doc F). This loneliness has left people confused about their purpose in life which ends in people (mostly teenagers) hurting themselves. Not having that younger person run to had caused great damage to families and