Overpopulation - The Influence of Birth Control on a Nation

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Overpopulation - The Influence of Birth Control on a Nation
Is birth control a good option for addressing overpopulation? According to China, the world`s most populous country, it is still is. The first country to institute its own family planning policy, China maintains that no changes will be made to the 32-year old One-Child Policy. While the policy have made successes in controlling population growth, there have been researches showing that much of the policy`s provisions require reconsideration especially since the country is not experiencing extraordinary political and social changes. The China policy will serve as a case study in order to make generalizations about birth control, and how it can affect nations. This work argues that birth control is important in order to ensure continued economic progress, but that this decision is not for the government to impose. It is the author`s belief that the government`s role in controlling population growth must be limited with information dissemination so that citizens can make proper family planning decisions by themselves without further compulsion from the government.
The article published by the Guardian ADDIN Mendeley Citation{edaaa356-ce0d-4341-84a4-5e56ca1d10c3} CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "family" : "Watts", "given" : "Jonathan" } ], "container-title" : "The Guardian", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2011", "10", "25" ] ] }, "publisher-place" : "Henan", "title" : "China's one-child policy means benefits for parents \u2013 if they follow the rules", "type" : "article-newspaper" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=edaaa356-ce0d-4341-84a4-5e56ca1d10c3" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Watts)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" } (Watts) serves as a valuable resource for this argumentative paper. The report talks about the advantages and disadvantages of the one-child policy not only to parents, but also to the government.
In 1953, China`s first modern census showed that the country had about 583,000,000 people. This figure doubled in less than 50 years to reach approximately 1.25 billion. While its early leaders encouraged population growth, the Chinese government soon realized that "there is no way to modernize the economy and to improve living standards if substantial capital must continue to be invested to meet the needs of the growing population" ADDIN Mendeley Citation{f8fdc86b-a39e-401b-ab6a-856f5ecf298c} CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "family" : "Landman", "given" : "Lynn C." } ], "container-title" : "International Family Planning Perspectives", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "3", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "1981" ] ] }, "page" : "102-107", "title" : "China's One-Ch...