China's One Child Family Policy Case Study

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2. What are three social consequences spoken about in the New England Journal of Medicine article on China’s One Child Family Policy? Was the policy worth the social consequences?

In 1979, a majority of baby-boomers in China had reached the average age of reproduction. With worries of another rise in population, China implemented a controversial one-child limit on households, hoping to stop another boom. However, the policy came with social consequences. First, it’s implementation occurred shortly after China’s “late, long, few” policy of 1970-1979, “which called for later childbearing, greater spacing between children, and fewer children” was responsible for the slowing of population growth. The one child family policy only minimally