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The Amount Of Childbirths In 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long'

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Controlling the Amount of Childbirths in “Supertoys Last All Summer Long”. In the short story of Brian Aldiss’s “Supertoys Last All Summer Long”, we get a glimpse of what it is like to have the government control the amount of childbirths. Throughout the story we witness how Monica’s struggles to have a relationship with her son David, but in the end of the story, we uncover that he isn’t a real boy when Henry ask his wife Monica “is David malfunctioning” (Aldiss 118). David is there to fulfil Monica’s emptiness that she has for not having any children because the government must approve it first. Even though the story is science fiction, having the government’s approval to conceive is actually what the Chinese’s people are going through today. In the journal article “Two, Three, Four and More Child Policy,” A.J Jowett explains that the Chinese government are trying to control the overpopulation even if that means …show more content…

Monica and Henry had a unique way to determine when they can conceive, by winning the “week’s parenthood lottery” (Aldiss 118). The policy was basis for the women who lived in rural area compared to the women who lived in the urban part of town. If a female give birth that was from the rural area and did not get consent, she would be tormented to have an abortion or after a women had a three child, she would be strongly encouraged to be sterilized. As too women in urban areas, if they were in the same situation, the officials would just hope they get on some kind of birth control. From the author of the eBook Nie Jing-Bao “Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion,” Dr. Ying expresses that “a remedial measure when contraception fails abortion is a solution when there is no other alternative” (2). Henry lets us know that his part of town that his “apartment had no windows to the outside; no one wanted to see the overcrowded world” (117). So they created synthetic life

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Mao Zedong, one of the most influential leaders in Chinese history, once said that, “Of all the things in the world, people are the most precious.” One of the biggest problems that he faced was the growing population of China. At first, he discouraged birth control, but when the growth rate was growing astronomically, Mao introduced “Late, Long and Few.” When even this was not slowing down the population growth, China implemented a one-child policy. It allowed for the Chinese population to have one child, and was far more harmful than beneficial to China.

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In 1916 overpopulation was a growing issue. Many children were coming into the world unintentionally and unwanted. Margaret Sanger believed that all women should have the ability to choose if and when they wanted to become mothers by giving them access to birth control. Sanger’s family had 11 children and she worked as a nurse. Sanger worked in New York City slums with poor families and mothers constantly giving birth to unwanted children.

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The cost of the one child policy was a rise in sex ratio which is "estimated 30 million or more Chinese men who will be looking for a wife in 2030 but won't be able to find one" (Document E). This prolonging effect created by the one child policy is bad because China's population will soon start to decrease exponentially due to less

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During that 9 year period, couples began marrying late, waiting longer before having children and then only having dew kids, due to the Mao Zedong's endorsed slogan, Late, Long and Few, introduced in the 1960s. ‘In countries without a forceful and costly policy as China’s, birth rates had declined with similar trajectories and magnitude, (Doc. B).” Brazil and South Korea show fertility rates at 4.2 (Brazil) and 2.9 (South Korea) in 1979 decreased to 1.9 and 1.2 in 2008 compared to China, under the policy, with a rate of 2.7 in 1979 reduced to 1.7 in 2008. The evidence supports the claim that the one-child policy was a bad policy because fertility rates would have dropped naturally just like it did in Brazil and South Korea. Even if rates didn’t drop the country would be stable at 2.7 because of the effect Mao’s slogan had on

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The Washington Post’s article “China’s one-child policy led to my adoption — and a more privileged life” was an insightful article about how the one-child policy in China has contributed to the adoption process. The article is written by Ricki Mudd and it tells her story of her childhood and her reunion with her birth parents after being put up for adoption due to the one-child policy. Mudd’s story is not uncommon among Chinese girls. Mudd was the first-born child in her family, but she was not a male; her parents did not want to give her up but they also wanted a son. After attempting to hide her for several years, Mudd was taken away and put up for adoption.

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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 in China was a bad policy because the fertility rates started dropping before the policy, the amount of emotional damage it put on families, and how much only children suffered. The one-child policy was a bad idea because of the impacts on the before and after of the fertility rates. In document B we read that, "China had already achieved a remarkable fertility reduction, halving the number of children per woman from 5.8 in 1970 to 2.7 in 1979," (Document B). This policy is unnecessary because the fertility rates are already dropping naturally.

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What would you do if all of a sudden the government said you could only have one child? This is exactly what policy happened in 1980 in China when the One Child Policy was enacted. There has been a lot of talk about if this policy was necessary and if it had a good or bad effect on China’s future. This policy was a good idea because it positively affected women and girls, reduced pollution, and parents are now able to give more care and attention to one child. China’s One Child Policy was a good idea because it helped women and girls.

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What China was trying to achieve with the One Child Policy was fix a problem they had caused in the first place, when, Mao Zedong, encouraged having more children to have more future workers, and discouraged the use of birth controls (Intro). The One Child Policy came into place in 1980, effected the ethnicity of Han Chinese and was definitely not one of China’s best ideas. It caused many hardships for the citizens of China. The policy was unnecessary for many of three reasons: the fertility rate was already dropping, there is a huge gender and age imbalance, as well as it is to blame for some of the youth’s social issues. From 1970 to 1979 there was a big reduction in fertility rates in China from 5.8 to 2.7, which was prior to the One

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World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. Also in document B, Feng Wang and Cai Yong state that by the time the One-Child Policy was even introduced, China had already been going through a great fertility reduction. Fertility rates went from 5.8 to 2.7 in just nine years before the policy took place. Wand and Yong also write that, "The claim by Chinese officials that the one child policy has helped avert 400 million births simply cannot be substantiated by facts." This corroborates that the policy is truly unnecessary.

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Throughout the last three decades, China has been struggling to reduce its population growth rate with one-child policy. China’s one-child policy was enacted to strictly limit the number of children each family can have to one. National Geographic’s geographer Aileen Clarke indicates the result of the policy was an average reduction of China’s fertility and birth rates after 1980, “dropping below two children per woman in the mid-1990s” (Clarke). However, with the cause of many negative consequences such as skewed sex ration; abortion of females; lack of supply in workers; aging population, the policy itself has received lots of criticism and had to come to an end. Moreover, Latanya Mapp Frett, the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood

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