China's One Child Policy
- Created by: ritika
- Created on: 03-05-13 23:24
The policy came into force in 1970 aimed to encourage people to have only one child.
China's one-child policy has been somewhat relaxed in recent years. Couples can now apply to have a second child if their first child is a girl, or if both parents are themselves only-children.
While China's population is now rising more slowly, it still has a very large total population (1.3 billion in 2008) and China faces new problems, including:
the falling birth rate - leading to a rise in the relative number of elderly people
Fewer people of working age to support the growing number of elderly dependents - in the future China could have an ageing population
21% of world's population live in China and 1.25 billion is the current pop, the optimum is 0.76
population increasing by 55 million by 3 years and would double by 50 years, the rate of natural increase is 0.9%
How is the policy enforced?
- forced abortion
- family planning
- promote delayed marriage and child bearing
- advocate fewer and healthier births
- not written in chinese law but chinese officials have said it is mandated (governed) by laws governing other aspects of chinese society
Benefits for couples who follow the policy:
- longer maternity leave
- better housing, priority access to housing
- free education (government pays for one child's education)
- family planning
- better care for women + health care and lowering chances of an STD and also paid medical
- rural people receive larger land allocation
Punishments for people who don't follow…
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