Reasons Why One-Child Policy Should Be Abolished In China

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Chinese One-Child Policy
The one-child policy was introduced in China in the year 1979 as a population planning policy (Goodstadt, 37). This policy has been a part of family planning in China since the 1970s. Approximately 36% of the Chinese population was imperiled by the one-child policy in 2007 where 53% of the population were permitted to have another child if their firstborn was a girl (Hesketh et al. 1171). However, the Chinese government executed fines to people who broke this rule. According to the Chinese government, one-child policy was targeted to decline the population to 1.27 billion by 2000 (Hesketh, 1172). Nonetheless, in a recent discussion of Chinese Communist Party, a controversial issue has been whether the one-child law should be changed to a two-child policy. On the one hand, some argue that the one-child policy should be abolished because if people fail to have more children, China is going to have a massively reduced workforce to sustain the huge number of aging people. Others, however, believe that the one-child policy is an effective way of limiting high population growth. The one-child policy is a significant issue since it involves essential moral principles and social problems. Accordingly, the understudy will shed light on whether the one-child policy in China should be abolished.
The One-Child Policy in China
In China, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the government encouraged the Chinese families to have more children because Mao believed that a high population empowered the country. Therefore, most the populace was at their reproductive by 1950 (Hesketh, 1174) which means that, the population was highly growing. The one-child policy was however implemented to reduce the Chinese population by 2080 to the desired level. The China's one-child policy was started as a One-Generation Policy which was most strict in densely populated areas. However, families with disabled children or whose their first suffers from mental illness were permitted to have other children. In the rural areas, bearing the second child was allowed after five years. This policy was implemented through an enforced financial penalty to people who opted to have a second child. The Chinese women were required to use the contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD) which was installed surgically after having the first child and later be sanitized by tubal ligation after giving birth to the second child. By 2014, 384 million women had the IUD and 107 women were sanitized (Goodstadt 48). Moreover, women who failed to take these procedures were resented and also could lose their jobs and their progenies lose access towards health services as well as education.
The one-child policy was a way of improving economic growth by reducing the population growth. This policy has lifted millions of China's people from poverty and inspired many to pursue their economic objectives. This policy has as well helped the Chinese health services to provide better services to women and also reduce death and injury risks related to pregnancy. Moreover, this policy has played a significant role in improving the quality of Chinese women's lives. Due to the reduced number of children, women can i...