The Chinese and Indian populations have grown exponentially over the last fifty years. Accompanied with this has been an increased and continuing desire for male children, which is referred to as son preference. This strong son preference has resulted in a disproportionate son ratio for both China and India, which results in a very disproportionate gender ratio. For both countries, there are several factors involved in the problem: cultural expectation, available technology, and long-term economic benefit, just to name a few. To combat the disproportionate gender ratio in China and India, it is necessary to approach the problem from several different angles; ones that will ultimately give women rights and methods to contribute to their family …show more content…
Directly prior to either of those factors entering the scene, the gender ratio was 1.06/1, an entirely normal number (Gu, Roy 3rd para.). By 1986, when the one child policy had been in place for seven years, and ultrasound available for about six, the gender ratio was 1.109/1(Hull 69). The one child policy was implanted as a method of population control. At the time, China was country with a population that was quickly increasing, and the government was concerned that the population would overwhelm available resources. Consequently, they implanted the one child policy, which, except for a few exceptions, limited couples to one child. More recently, as the negative impacts of this policy have become apparent, the policy has been relaxed and more exceptions allowed. In rural areas where the amount of people is less dense, couples can have more than one child. There are many articles explaining the purpose and results of the policy, one of which was, “The One Child Family Policy” by W. Zhu. In it, Zhu stated that a recent change was if two only children get married, they can have two children, one to replace the mother, and one to replace the father (463,464). China has always preferred males over females, but the one child policy really exacerbated the problem. There is also a significant amount of information regarding gender preference after the policy was in practice, and one such exam is an article titled, “The Consequences of Son Preference and Sex-Selective Abortion in China and Other Asian Countries” by Therese Hesketh, which greatly helped clarify the background information. In it she says that once parents were limited to only one child, they take much greater pains to get a boy, and used every means available to either prevent getting a girl, terminating a
The adoption process can take more than one year and cost a family up to $18,000. Couples wait anxiously for the government’s approval, then the government assigns them a baby. Couples are given nothing more than a picture of the baby. They don’t have the child’s medical information, who the parents are, etc. Finally, three days after the arrival in Beijing, the couples get to meet their baby for the first time. Under Chairman Mao in the ‘50s and ‘60s, China’s population exploded. By 1980, Mao’s successors limited families to having only one child. Sometimes, families were allowed to have two. This was the largest human population control effort in human history. China’s population is coming under control, but there are consequences no one intended. Couples feel that they must have a boy because boys often carry on the family name, provide work and they stay with their parents at old age. Possibly, over 100,000 baby girls are abandoned every year. Many of them will end up in an orphanage. Today, 1in 4 children adopted overseas come from China. The babies adopted by Americans are only a fraction of the millions of girls believed to be missing from China’s population. While the number of girls are being giving away, the number of boys are becoming way out of proportion. Today, boys greatly out number girls and its only getting worse. This relates to cultural relativism,
Dena Davis in the 5th chapter of “Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children’s Futures” explores the global attitudes, policies, and morality towards determination of sex. She begins with presenting empirical evidence of some preferences held in countries such as India or China where there is a clear desire for male children. This inclination is so deeply held that mothers can be socially and physically harmed when, by pure biological chance, they fail to produce a male child. Davis and others allow sex selection in these cases, purely in the interest of harm reduction of mothers and their daughters born into such a situation. This example is contrasted with so-called “western” societies, where the preference
My parents told me that they had a good life back at China, where they grew up, my father told me that they had a pretty nice life going on back there. Why they came here is beyond my comprehension, my father told me that they had a pretty good income back there, and life was good. Why they came here stumped me and make me thought why and so I asked, they gave me vague answers, but one of the reasons was because my parents were having their first child, which was my big sister. At China, there is this policy, the one child policy, only one child, it’s because China is overpopulated. Furthermore that boys were more favored than girls were. If they were to have an only my sister, I wouldn’t be born today nor my little brother. I later discovered that a good reason why to come here, for opportunity.
In 1979, China decided to establish a one child policy which states that couples are only allowed to have one child, unless they meet certain exceptions[1].In order to understand what social impacts the one child policy has created in China it important to evaluate the history of this law. China’s decision to implement a Child policy has caused possible corruption, an abuse of women’s rights, has led to high rates of female feticide, has created a gender ratio problem for China, and has led to specific problems associated with both the elderly and younger generation. Finally, an assessment of why China’s one child policy is important to the United States allows for a full evaluation of the policy.
If you agree with the one child rule you are upon given a reward on “Certificate of Honor for Single-Child Parents.”. But if if you are upon an ethnicity that’s minor or migrators, and still decide to have a child, most likely consequence will take effect, but more encourage you. Also couples tend to get luckier when having a boy, because it is preferred in the country. The government encourages the idea of an “unbalanced society” where there can be one more gender than the other to control birth effects. However the concept of preferring a boy than a girl can be outraging on realistic issues.
Feng Wang and Cai Yong stated that the fertility rate was already declining and the policy wasn’t necessary for the Chinese people, especially because the enormous costs. The fertility rate, which is the number of children the average woman has in her lifetime, in China started at 2.7 in 1979 and decreased to 1.7 in 2008. The article “China’s One Child Policy at 30” argued that the policy did not need to be introduced in China because the rates were already lower than Brazil at 4.2 and Thailand at
During the first half of 50’s government did not limit the population growth but did the exact opposite and actually encourage families to have more children. This was due to the Mao Zedong’s or Chairman Mao’s believe that more population would mean more economic development, more labor and more growth, however, late 1950’s changed that and that is when China began implementing first population control measures. As population reached 600 million Mao expressed his wish for population to remain in this level. Government soon realized that in order to keep population at this level, long term population control would have to be implemented. First they began by simply distributing various forms of contraceptives among general population. As famine of 1959-1961 struck the country it set the policy aside but as soon as country began to demonstrate signs of recovery the family planning campaign resumed where it left with distribution of contraceptives. By the late 1970s, China had experienced success in decreasing fertility rates by increasing the use of birth control under the slogan "Late, Long and Few". As a result China's population growth dropped by half between 1970 and 1976. Nonetheless, it soon leveled off, making government and officials seek more drastic measures and on September 25, 1980 an open letter by the Chinese Communist Party established One-Child Policy (OCP) also called Family Planning Policy (FPP). Nevertheless the OCP name is misleading since the policy allows for exceptions. For instance rural families with first child being disabled or being girl are allowed to have another child. Also, couples where both bride and groom are single children are allowed to have two ...
If a lost child would be found immediate attention would be given to the child. And following procedure would be followed:
Ideological, social, political, and economic factors of a given period play key roles in developing and maintaining any social welfare policies in which the area of child welfare is not an exception. Throughout the history of child welfare legislation in Canada, Acts have been passed and modified according to the changing concept of childhood and to the varying degree of societal atmosphere of each period.
Unfortunately, if the government does not take more action, it is possible that a population collapse may occur. With a fewer percentage of females, men will begin competing for women leading to acts of violence and those left without brides may be driven to suicidal tendencies. Given time, newer technologies will be made that will reveal more and more detailed information about the fetus that could in fact just be, that infants greatest demise. Because of the future advancements in technology to come, it is a moral obligation to put an end to the injustices of the silenced genocide of females in India. In order to do so, the government must implement laws that not only respect traditional values of the Indians, but also solve their economic and financial problems to end bias towards boys.
China is a large country in the northern hemisphere, located in the continent of Asia, And bordered by countries such as Mongolia and Vietnam. China currently has an anti-natal policy, which means there is a policy against having children. This started because China had an exponential population growth throughout the 1950's and 60's, And birth rates reached 5.8 per 1000 per year. This -induced the population policy being introduced in 1979-1980. The "One child policy" of china has become very well known over the years because it is the most drastic policy of its kind in today's world. The policy states that couple may only have one child, Although having two children is not illegal it means you do not get any state benefits, meaning you have to pay for all health care and education etc. So only the very rich can afford this. There are many problems with this policy though. The first is that there will be an ageing population, and therefore a high dependency rate. Also as couples are only allowed one child they prefer to have a boy, therefore there is a large gender imbalance in China today, for every 100 baby girls born there are 116 baby boys. This causes large scale emigration of young Chinese men looking for wives.
In my setting, one of the main policies is the Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy. This policy ensures every child can enjoy the right to live their life free from harm or abuse or potential harm or abuse. The nursery ensures that the children are in a caring, supportive and safe environment, In the nursery, they also ensure children have unique talents and abilities, in which all children can learn and develop to their full potential. This allows the children to feel comfortable around others to share different beliefs without it being an issue. This sets clear guidelines for teachers to follow should an incident occur.
Given the high sex ratio in recent China population report, the abnormally excessive male birth exemplifies the persistence of son preference on women’s fertility behavior. Son preference rooted in Chinese agriculture-based economy and historical feudalism, in consistence with the reliance on laborers and continuing the family line. Older people prefer to depend on their sons to get financial and physical support, while daughters are regarded as property of their husband’s family since the day of marriage.
Another policy suggestion that I believe may help with the crisis created by the One Child policy is to put more government funding and regulations into orphanages. These orphanages are often chocked full of children abandoned by families because they were female or disabled, so that they could try again for a healthy son. This would prevent some of the many atrocities committed in orphanages, such as the alleged dying rooms. It is also within my opinion that Chinese laws that contain loopholes, allowing for parents to let their children die from neglect. I find the fact the people are able and willing to take advantage of this ambiguity in the law by leaving their children to die. I can’t comprehend how someone would be so willing to just
Over population has been a global issue for decades. Medical advances have made it possible for people to live longer and have multiple births, which are just some of the factors contributing to this social problem. Many countries have attempted to battle this issue, but none as intensely as China. China allows the government to have full control over family planning to help reduce the population. In 1979 China created a policy called the "One Child Law" which limits couples to only one child. Although the Chinese government hopes to curb the population boom and benefit society, the One Child Policy has morally questionable results, negative impacts on Chinese society, which should be changed.