One child policy

China

• Encoragment of fast growing population in 1949 led to problems like food shortages, dropping of living standards and famine
• One child policy introduced in 1979

How policy enforced in past

• Later marriages---> ment o be at least 25 and women 23
• Spacing between births---> gap of at least 4 years between each new child
• Fewer children--->up to 3 children

FAILED

Policy now

• Slightly flexible---> rurual families are aloud more than one child
• Fines imposed if someone has another baby, instead…