China’s massive famine and resource epidemic in the 1960’s, the Chinese government was concerned that the population would continue to cultivate. Because of these concerns couples were encouraged to not have many children and wait if they decided to have children. In 1979 After the population stabilized , “ The One Child Policy”, was placed into law. The law restricted Han Chinese couples to only have one child, and if couples could not abide by the law they would have to face severe punishments. Even with the stabilizing fertility rate in china the One Child Policy was put into place to protect China's people it caused devastation among Chinese families. The one Child Policy affected couples dependent on their family , created a gender imbalance, and caused emotional distress on only children. The One Child Policy left a scar on family life. Parents often depended on their children for support suffered from the One Child Policy. More specifically parents who relied on large family sized to help maintain a family business struggled due to the policy . In Feng Wang and Cal Yong’s article, China’s One Child Policy at 30, they write, “ To Enforce a Policy that was so extreme and unpopular for families who relied on children for labor… physical abuses and violence would be inevitable” (Wang, Yong). …show more content…
In most cultures, men are seen as superior, because of this Chinese couples were determined to have a son if they could only have one child, as a result China would suffer from gender imbalance. This is seen in Laura Fitzpatrick’s article, she writes “ With the boys being preferable, the practice of female infanticide”(Fitzpatrick). Due to the large amounts of killing daughters the ratio of males to females in China has a huge gap. Fitzpatrick writes, “ China still has 32 million more boys than girls”( Fitzpatrick). As a result of the One Child Policy the gender imbalance would have long lasting effects on