China's One Child Policy: Impact and Implementation

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China has the largest population in the world with about 1.42 billion. The country had a concern
over the rate of population growth and considered it as a great challenge in economic growth.
The Chinese government employed a one child per family system. It also initiated birth control
techniques and gave economic bonuses to families with few children.
The One Child Policy
According to Coole (2018), one child system requires a wedded couple to acquire a family
planning permit card once they encounter a pregnancy. Initially acquiring this government-
offered birth certificate was challenging and required a controlling maze of bureaucracy,
involving getting official stamps with not less than 16 different entities. The process was so long
and expensive to the extent that some families needed toil in order to afford and complete at least
one step of the process (DiLorenzo & Cheng, 2019).
The government of China subjected the couple who are or are about to be a mother and father to
great scrutiny, whereby they had to present their names and home addresses for recording on a
public bulletin board. The mother's identification number: which includes the United States
Social Security number and driver's license number was also recorded along (Zhang & Qing,
2016). Through these records the government of China was able to track the number of wombs
in China, it also had a record of which birth contraceptive the couple had used previously. In
case the parents do not have the registration form at the time of childbirth then the birth is not
recorded and neither is a birth certificate issued hence the birth of the child is considered
illegitimate lawfully (Hartmann, 2016).
Initially, the government of China affirmed to the citizens that only one child was enough so they
were being advised to marry and give birth at a late age. Currently, they are advising the young
people to give birth when they were young so they are advised to marry when they are in the
university. They claimed that older women are likely to give birth to children with defects as a
result of poor or weak fertility at an old age.