Management Of Natural Increase

Question 1

What is an anti-natalist policy?

Answer 1

• these are policies that are adopted to decrease population growth

Question 2

What is a pro-Natalist policy?

Answer 2

-these are policies adopted when a country wants to increase population growth

Question 3

In 20 years what did the population of China grow from

Answer 3

540 million to 830 million

Question 4

When was the one child policy introduced?

Answer 4

1979

Question 5

What did the policy involve

Answer 5

• free contraception
• a law to stop people marrying before a certain age
• a permission slip to allow a couple to try for a child without a slip a child would not be registered at birth
• very late abortion after second pregnancy

Question 6

Problems

Answer 6

• ageing population
• a single child tends to be engulfed and even spoilt this may mean they grow up not able to work with others (this is known as the little emperor problem
• because of the presence Gordon’s rather than daughters. There are now 30 million more young men than young women