One Child Policy In China Assignment

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ONE CHILD POLICY IN CHINA
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ONE CHILD POLICY IN CHINA1
One child policy is a program that is being initiated by China as their birth planning
program it is being mainly designed in order to control the quick growing population of the
China (Feng, Wang, Yong Cai, and Baochang Gu). It is very different from the other policies
which are being adopted by the other countries in order to control the birth of the new born as the
other countries tends to focus on the providing with the contraceptive options to the women so
that they can decide on the number of babies they want to have (Cameron, Lisa). However, in
contrast to this, china limits on the total number of children a parent could have. This policy is
considered to be one of the extreme level of population planning. This essay will be focusing on
the experiences faced by me and my parents as a result of the one child policy program.
The one child policy program in the china was being created as the on generation policy.
It was being implied in the provincial standard. However, it is to be noted that some of the
provinces tend to have restrictions which were more relaxed in their nature. The one child policy
was being implemented strictly in the areas which were densely populate During the period of
time when this policy was being introduced, 6.1 million of families who had given birth to a
child were provided with one child honorary certificates (İmrohoroğlu, Ayşe, and Kai Zhao).
This is the kind of the pledge that was being taken by the families to ensure that they would not
have more than one children. This policy was mainly adopted in the early time of the 1970’s and
early 1980’s by the central government of the China. The main purpose that tends to lie behind
the implementation of the policy was to limit the huge majority of the units of the family in the
country. The reason for which the policy was being implemented by China was to limit or reduce
the growth rate of the population of the China. It is to be noted that the policy was considered to
be a very temporary method to slow down the expansion of the population. It was also meant to
facilitate the growth of the finance during the time when the nation faced high shortage of the

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capital, natural resources and of the consumer goods. Though there are several advantages to the
policy in general, it is to be noted that the policy had huge negative impact as well. It reduced
the rate of fertility. One of the significant disadvantage was that it lead to the bad impact of the
gender ratio of the people of china as the people preferred to abort or even abandon their children
who are females. However, it is to be noted that the policy of the china also had great impact on
my life as well. Since, my parents had only one child, they expected everything from me. Since,
my parents wanted a second child and as per the policy of the china, they could not have so,
rather they had to abandon their idea of having their second baby, whatever amount of
expectations they had from their second child, they expected the same from me. Thus, it can be
said that I had to fulfill the role or the responsibilities that I had towards them as may parents and
also fulfill the expectations that they wanted from their second child which they did not get in the
long run. Since, I was their only child, they had huge amount of expectations from me. They
wanted me to score huge marks in the academics and be academically a very brilliant child. On
the other hand, in order to make sure, that my concentration do not gets break, they used to make
sure that I do not engage myself in the household activities like cleaning the house, washing the
dishes or engage myself in the works of the laundry. My parents just wanted me to just focus on
my academics in order to score really well. However, it is to be noted, apart from the
expectations of my family to score a very high marks in the academics and even become very
much academically a brilliant student, they also expected me to be very good in my co-curricular
activities as well. They wanted their second child to learn and play piano but since because of the
policy, they could not have one, they made me learn piano and have the expectation that I must
excel in playing piano as well. Apart from this, they also have the expectation that I must
participate in the activities so that they can feel proud of their child. It can therefore be said that