China's One Child Policy Flashcards
What was China’s population growth in the middle of the twentieth century?
55 million every three years.
What was the average number of children born to a Chinese woman in 1963?
7.5.
What was the birth rate in the early 1970s?
31 per thousand people.
What was the average family size in the early 1970s?
3 per family.
Why was the policy needed?
Extreme poverty. Lack of food and drinking water. Famine. Unemployment. Traffic congestion.
What age were people aloud to marry as part of the one child policy?
Women - 20.
Men - 22.
How did the one child policy ensure that couples only had one child?
Sterilisation after the first child.
Abortion of future pregnancies.
What were the benefits from couples keeping to the policy?
Name 5
5-10% salary rise. Bigger land. Extended maturity leave. Paid medical/hospital expenses. Priority access to housing, employment.
Who did the 5-10% salary rise benefit?
People living in urban areas.
Who did the bigger land allocation benefit?
People living in rural areas.
Couples who obeyed the government had priority to what?
Housing.
Employment.
An only child has access to what?
Free schooling.
What were the consequences of not conforming to the policy?
Deprived these benefits.
Pay large fines.
If couples did not keep to the policy what was withdrawn?
Family allowances.
Medical benefits.
If couples did not keep to the policy and worked within the government what would happen?
They would be demoted or discharged.
