why is there such drastic measures in place for birth controll in china?

Question

why are they so strict, what would it matter if people hade as many children as they like

Answer 1

China has proclaimed that it will continue its one child policy, which limits couples to having one child, through the 2006-2010 five year planning period.
China's one child policy was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to limit communist China's population growth. Although designated a "temporary measure," it continues a quarter-century after its establishment. The policy limits couples to one child. Fines, pressures to abort a pregnancy, and even forced sterilization accompanied second or subsequent pregnancies.

It is not an all-encompassing rule because it has always been restricted to ethnic Han Chinese living in urban areas. Citizens living in rural areas and minorities living in China are not subject to the law. However, the rule has been estimated to have reduced population growth in the country of 1.3 billion by as much as 300 million people over its first twenty years.

This rule has caused a disdain for female infants; abortion, neglect, abandonment, and even infanticide have been known to occur to female infants.

Answer 2

Because China has a quarter of the earth's population living in the one country so obviously it's a problem. This is what led to the communist government deciding to come up with a way to try and control it. With the world population expanding as rapidly as it is now China just wouldn't be cope if it didn't have any measures at all in place and the country would just end up becoming more and more over populated.

Answer 3

Are you serious.....China has 1.2 billion people. This is unbelievably huge. If there was no restriction on their population growth there would be huge demands, huge shortages and then there would be a mad max type world in China. The cost of housing, food, etc would be so high that most of a person's income would go just to barely get by. Is this desirable? I think not.

Think about what happened to the price of oil these past two years. Part of it was due to China's and India's economy expanding. Lets say that they expanded even more because of higher population growth, then the prices of all our commodities would become so much higher.

Answer 4

There is only just enough food for the present 1.3 billion people, almost one quarter of the entire planet. Everyone in China supports and agree with the policy, as they all want ti improve their standard of living, and realise that this policy helps considerably.

Answer 5

They have a severe overcrowding problem there, entire families with money live in one room apartments.

Answer 6

Perhaps it has something to do with gross overpopulation...???

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