Pros and Cons of One Child Policy in China

China has a very big population, about 1.2 billion, and is still continuing to rise. In order to reduce the number of population in China, China set up a One Child Policy which controls the number of children each married couple can give birth to, which is one child per couple.

Pros of One child policy:

- reduce number of Population.

 As the population of China is constantly rising, this methods works well in reducing the number of the population.

- lesser poverty in China.

 In poor areas, too many births causes the economy of a family to fall backwards as they will have more mouths to feed if they have a lot of children. By doing so, the government helps the poor people to raise the quality of life for them by helping them do family planning and at the same time, holding the growth of the population under control.

Cons of One child policy:

- brings birth tourism.

 Some parents are escaping to the strict rules of the policy by giving birth to their other child overseas. 

- forces abortion and human rights violation.

 One child policy has been challenged both in practice and in principle for violation human rights to identify the size of one’s family. The proclamation of the International Conference on Human Rights in the year 1968 revealed that parents have the right to determine responsibly and freely the spacing and the number of children. In the execution of one child policy, a lot of local governments demand abortions once pregnancy violates some local regulations.

~ Zhang SiTing (20) 2G