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China's One Child Policy Dbq Essay

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China's one-child policy was a policy that limited couples to have only one child. This policy was in place from 1980-2015. In 1949, 20 years of civil war had just ended which led Cchina to be a poor country, having many harsh years of war, diseases and natural disasters, China'schina's population was the largest in the world. Mao Zednog won control of China and questioned how China would feed and clothe all of its population. China introduced many movements with the prime purpose of lowering the population, however none of them worked. After their population was close to one billion, China introduced the one child policy. Benefits of China's policy include: having one child means more education, more attention and more resources for the child, being a female only child means no competing for being favored and more attention and resources for the kid, and the policy lowered the population for China which made the GDP higher and led …show more content…

Being a female only child means no competition for being favored and more attention and resources for the kid, and having one child means more education, more attention and more resources. As noted in document D (a non biased document), which was posted in 2005 with the purpose of informing the public, the urban singleton daughters and young women in general thought of the policy as a blessing. In document C, it says that the policy was made specifically for educational and economic reasons but it also turned out to be an environmental reason as well. Because of the large number of people in China it has really put high pressure on all resources, especially water. But the population after the one child policy kept sulfur dioxide emissions down and reduced water pollution by a little less than a

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