One Child Policy Analysis

For many decades, women have been fighting for equal opportunity in the United States. The equality ranges from voting rights, family planning rights with contraception, all the way to having the ability to hold certain jobs. This mind set was originally embedded in the American culture from the moment girl children are old enough to understand the separation between the two sexes. But the shift in the Western culture has dramatically changed as now systematically women do have the same rights as men. Yet in other countries, that is not the case. Some countries such as China are still view the concept of children, especially female kids differently. Usually Chinese parents use their children as an opportunity for the betterment of their own

One policy that was the most effective is the “One Child Policy” that was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979. Xiaoping drafted the policy to reduce the growth population to limit families from having multiple children and rewarding them with incentives for doing so. This policy was also implemented to discourage the birth of female infants because most families wanted to have a son. Most families wanted to have a son because it was embedded in the people’s minds to have sons, which will turn into men. Men/boys were preferred because males would be responsible for doing hard work, while females would bear children and support their husbands. This created an influx in abortions due to a couple having a female child (Lombardo). But as a result of China’s One Child Policy, the dispersion of men to women statistically is significantly high. Less men are getting married and having a family because there are less women to choose from. Conditions are worst from those who live in the country parts of China as there is less of a variety of people much less women. This leads the men to consider extreme measures just to find a woman to be intimate with. Some of the men result to having relationships with their animals. Some of the other measures also include leaving their village in the country to go to the city to find jobs and hopefully a wife. The scarcity of women has led to the encouragement of women to stay home and not to wander the streets in fears of potentially being kidnapped and forced into human trafficking (Looking for China Girl). Women can be bought through trafficking, which is where some of the men end up getting women