China's one child policy
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- Created on: 02-11-14 12:27
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- Geography birth control policy: China's One Child Policy
- Original rules and penalties
- Each couple couldn't marry until their late 20s
- The must only have one healthy child
- Abort further pregnancies
- Be sterilised after one child
- 5-10% pay rise for those with one child
- Free education for one child
- 10% pay cut for those with more than one child
- Healthcare and education has to be paid for two children
- Granny Police checked on women of child-bearing age
- Ethnic minorities would become unsustainable
- Exempt from one child policy
- Benefits and problems
- 400 million less people born
- More jobs and food are available
- Standards of living improved
- Millions got out of poverty
- Women were forced to have abortions at 9 months pregnant
- Women put under pressure from work, families and Granny Police
- Sons were preferred over daughters
- Girls sent to orphanages
- Left to die (female infanticide)
- Children over-indulged 'Little Emperors'
- Gender imbalance- 60 million more males than females
- Changes in the 1990s and 2000s
- Children who were only children allowed a second child
- Women could concentrate on careers with less childcare
- Attitude to having a daughter improved
- People were able to pay a fine and face consequences so have a second child
- In 2008 1 million more people were born than died every five weeks
- 600 million people still live on less than $2 a day
- Introduced in 1979
- Original rules and penalties
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