China One Child Policy Essay The One Child Policy is where only one child can go to one family. If families do have more than one child the child will be labeled as nothing and won't revive a birth certificate and the family will have a 10,000 dollar fine. China went with the policy in order to stop population rates from going any more higher than they already are. People were dying and starving due to the shortage of water and food throughout the cities and towns all around China. The policy was put in to hopefully save lives and make people happy. Elderly people can die of neglect, factory workers can plummet due to the Policy. That what it says in Document E. Over 250 million births have been prevented which saved China from a population