'one Child Policy' China

Question 1

How did the scheme work?

Answer 1

• given many benefits for having only one child.
• if the second child is born. Must return benefits.
• pay fine with money/ food rations
• socially, ppl pushed away for disobeying a law that everyone else abides by.

Question 2

Why was the one child policy introduced?

Answer 2

• in 1980 the population was over 1 billion people.
• government couldn’t support all of the people.
  They didn’t want to reach 8 billion by 2020.

Question 3

What are some affects of the One Child Policy?

Answer 3

• richer families disobey and pay fine.
• farmers (need larger work force) obey but falling work no. = food shortages.
• girls abandoned & gender selective abortion = gender misbalance
  = poor treatment of women. (Kidnapped & forced to marry)
• huge pressure on single children to live up to parents and grand parents expectations.
  V. Spoilt children.
  = rising social cost.

Question 4

How was the Policy successfull?

Answer 4

• 400 million births prevented.

- More people in work (woman) because they have children later and only need to look after one child.

Question 5

When did chola change the policy to being the Two Child Policy?

Answer 5

October 2015

Question 6

Why did China increase the child allowance to two?

Answer 6

• gender imbalance = girls outnumbered by boys, by 50%

- ageing population = unbalanced pop pyramid.