China's One Child Policy

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses how, although China's one child policy imposed strict family planning rules on the Chinese people and destroyed their right to privacy, for the government had a hand in every bedroom in China, it did, however, do what it sought out to do: reduce the overpopulation. In particular, the paper looks at both sides of the argument as to whether the policy cause more problems than it solves. The paper concludes that, overall, China's one child policy has been a success and caused much more good than bad.

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Does China's One Child Policy Cause More Problems Than it Solves?
Yes
No
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"When the One Child Policy was put into place in 1979 it had one goal in mind: to control the population growth of China, which held one-fifth of the world's population. The government of China set out to control their growth and the rest of the world should have been taking notes. Many do not care to realize, but it has been speculated that the earth can only sustain 10 billion people, a number that it projected to be met by 2050. That number could be reached before this student even makes it to Social Security. Obviously something needs to be done to control the population on earth, and we should all look at China as an example. It is estimated that the One Child Policy has prevented about 300 million people in its first twenty years alone. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Denton, Paul. "US Slams China's One-Child Policy." Taipei Times 16 Dec. 2004. 1 Dec. 2006 <http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302514/posts>.
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