Human Rights of Women in China after One Child Policy Has Been Implemented?
Geog 315 AA
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James Kim
Introduction
In China, main reason why the One-Child Policy is negatively impacting on Chinese women is because the government forces families by coercing them but not by pursuing them to choose policy over poverty. People who live in the United States have their own rights of birth control, where as in countries like China, it is forced upon families through different techniques.
The One-Child Policy in China is said to benefit the balance and control of the World’s population. The One-Child Policy is a law that requires couples to only have one child. The law was established in 1979, and
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This concept tells that a pregnancy must be considered legal by the figures that enforce the One-Child Policy in order for a woman to give birth (Goodkind). Therefore, family planning authorities have the right to declare a woman’s pregnancy as legitimate or not, by any circumstance they deem appropriate.
Sterilizations play a huge portion in family planning and abusing women’s rights. The government forces birth control methods and reproductive cycles, public records of menstrual, and tampering with women rights (Goodkind). In the early years of the policy, surprisingly, women’s sterilization became common after 1979. Over 40 percent of women between 1980-1983 were sterilized, whether they were procreating or not. By 1987, 57 percent of women had been sterilized (Goodkind). The number of sterilizations since then has gone up in recent years, and continues to be a concern for the rights of
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Jin & Li mention “that these men tend to accumulate in the lower classes where the risk of violence is accentuated. Plus, men who are not married yet have low incomes tend to get restless, and in fact, areas with skewed gender balances tend to experience higher rates of crime. And because it's harder to find a wife, men are willing to literally buy or bid for them. This has contributed to China's elevated household savings rate where parents are having to squirrel away money in order to secure a bride for their son. It has also led to a boom in the mail order bride business and