China's One Child Policy Analysis

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The Abolition of China’s One Child Policy
The article “China Ends One-Child Policy, Allowing Families Two Children” by Chris Buckley discusses the termination of China’s one-child policy, and whether allowing families to have two children will make a difference. Some people in the article think that, long term, it will be beneficial to allow adults to have two children. Others think, even with the change, there will not be a large enough increase in births to change the economy. Since the one-child policy greatly altered China’s population composition, I think that allowing families to have two children will not increase China’s birth rate enough to compensate for the older dependent population.
The one-child policy China made 1980 has now reshaped China’s population makeup, and is the cause for current population problems. China originally implemented the one-child policy to compensate for China’s increasing natality
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The National Health and Family Planning Commission says that revoking the one child policy will “increase labor supply and ease pressures from an aging population. This will benefit sustained and healthy economic development.” Some people interviewed in the article, however, say that the policy will probable not change the population. Mu Guangzong says that “[he] [doesn’t] think a lot of parents would act on it, because the economic pressure of raising children is very high in China.” People who can have more than one child are choosing not to because of the cost. Even if every person of childbearing years starts having two children, it would still be a full generation before the population composition would begin to change. At this point, I believe that the Chinese government has waited too long to abolish the one child policy, and allowing families to have two children will not make up for the population alterations that are caused by the one child