The Negative Effects Of China's One Child Policy

China’s one child policy ought to be terminated because of the violation of women’s reproductive rights, human rights, and its negative effect on China’s current and future economic growth. Since the establishment of the one child policy there have been many who have accepted and also denied the conditions of the policy. From learned testimonies, statistics of the wellbeing of those involved, and research conducted, people have learned that the policy provides China with more harm than justice for the society. Therefore, due to the harm it places on society and because of the negative impact the policy places on children, women, and even men, the government’s attempts to over control their citizens lives ought not to be justified. One occurrence that baffles those not living in a society is how China encountered their rapid growing population, beginning the start of the one child policy. Over 30 years ago, the Chinese government established the one child policy. The policy was the result of the former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong’s, failures which had led to man-made famine leading into the death of over 30 million citizens. The Chinese government believed that the one child policy
The negative effects the policy will have on China’s current economic growth consist of, not having enough children to take care of the elderly, not having enough women to reproduce, the rise in trafficking within the women and children, and lastly, the rise in violence. Research over the past few years have proven that because of the one child policy, China has seen an increase in its crime rate. These crimes have been noted to be seen in the lives of the individuals who have shown a sense of lacking within their life. Most violent crime usually comes from men who lack social bonds