China
announced it will end it forced one child policy and raise the limit to two
children. The change was necessary to curb China’s expected slow population
growth. The old policy was put in place in the late 1970’s to stop the growth
of poverty in China. Now that China is the second biggest economy in the world,
the population has aged and there will be fewer children to take care of their
parents, and, possibly, two sets of grandparents. The government felt it was
time to change the policy, but some experts disagreed, and felt that the original
policy was unnecessary. Researchers are expecting an overburdening of health
care and elderly care systems in the future due to the pre-1970’s population growing
into those systems.
With this
change, things still aren’t any different in China in the realm of human
rights. Since the 1970’s, women have been forced to abort children and forced
into sterilization to meet the regulations. Yet all of these measures are
unnecessary because the birth rate was actually slowing down as China’s economy
was growing. Many families will not take advantage of the two child policy and
stay with only one child. It is looked at the cost of success in China. 1 out
of 11 families had applied for having a second child when some restrictions
were eased last year. These measure still don’t stop the fact that the
government of China is in their societies’ bedroom; dictating how they are to run
their personal life. Sadly, there is still a large group of impoverished people
in China, and very little is being done to raise them out of it; changing this
policy does not to improve their condition or lift the heavy human rights violations
that the Chinese government has burdened upon its people.
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This is very interesting to see with everything thats going on in China. They have said on multiple occasions that they are grossly over populated and even touched on shutting off access to the country for the most part to help with the smog levels as well as the lack of oxygen that fills the streets of their major cities like Beijing. But is good to see that they are finally allowing the two children system to come back as well as how they value their women.
ReplyDeleteI see how China wants to celebrate their new family policy, and how they believe it will help their society as a whole, however, I do agree with that fact that it does not make up for the policy they poreviously had of only allowing one child per family. Though their economy is thriving now, what happens if it goes down hill again? Do they re-impose their previous policy on the people?
ReplyDeleteI will be interested to see what happens with China in thirty years as the beginning of the single child birth mandates approach their seventieth birthdays. I think it will be an interesting twist in their economy to see how it effects them with approximately two generations of single child laws.
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