chinas one child policy

Question 1

what year was the one child policy?

Answer 1

1952

Question 2

what was the 1960s rapidly growing population threatened by?

Answer 2

famines
food supply shortages

Question 3

in the 1970s what were the governments afraid rapid growth in population would do?

Answer 3

hinder rather than help advance the countrys economic prospects

Question 4

what were issues of the one child policy?

Answer 4

it produced three generations of spoiled children known as the little emperors and little princesses. the adults lacked any sense of social responsibility and spent their childhood taking things for granted

shortage of women of marriageable age. this lead to 40 million unmarried men in 2020. sociologists also claim this lead to an increase in criminal activity by frustrated bachelors such as kidnapping or trafficking of women

growing ageing population lead to a decrease in the proportion of active workers