Effects of One Child Policy

The One Child Policy which is also known as the family planning policy is the population control policy in China. There are many disadvantages and advantages of having this poilcy implemented:

Advantages:

-better standard of living for the families

-increased saving rates compared to a family with more children

-more resources for the development of the children

-increase in food supply

-reduces unemployment (more jobs available due to decrease in population)

Disadvantages:

- the one child policy has caused many families to prefer sons over daughters, thus resulting in a large number of abandoned baby girls, abortion and even killing them.

- some parents, instead of killing or abandoning their girl babies, offer them for legal or illegal adoption.  Some parents even sell the girls.

-because of the bad actions against girl babies, 114 boys are born for every 100 girls. Because of this imbalance, some men can’t find women to marry.  This has lead to kidnapping and sale of women for marriage.  It has also increased the number of prostitutes and the number of men who go to them, and the cases of sexual diseases

- with this policy, there will be more and more older people depending on the small amount of younger generation people to take care of them.

- with only one child, some parents may spoil them by giving them all that they want, which may result in them becoming spoilt and not wanting to support their family.