China has always had a problem with over-population. The problem of a growing population is dated back to the Mao Zedong era when the population was just over 602 million people. He believed that if there were more people, then there would be more workers. The Chinese government noticed the problem of feeding, clothing, housing, employing and educating the numerous amount of people in the early 1980’s. China came up with the solution

Finally, advocates say by controlling the population they can promote economic development.

of producing a fewer amount of people. The government officials decided to create the one-child policy. With this, married couples would have to sign a one-child certificate which enforced the policy. This certificate served as a contract between the couple and the government to have only one child.

Another argument given by supporters of the policy says that the policy allows parents to be able to afford having birth and directing money towards that one child for education.

Finally, the opposed argue that child sex preferences in China is causing a major problem with incest. This is a direct cause of the male population being much higher than the female population.

China’s culture promotes a married couple to have a son. This feature of their culture is promoted by the idea that the son will act as a security system in the couples old age (Jowett). The security system does not work if a daughter is born because she will m

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Mao Zedong, Li Yinhe, Hong Xiao, , Horie According, Chen Shengli, one-child policy, Beech Statistics, age security, amount people, security system, growing population, chinese government, child china’s,