Chinese Overpopulation Problem
On a sunny weekend afternoon on the playgrounds and crowded shopping streets of China, all is utterly normal, including a sight that would seem bizarre and mysterious anywhere else in the world. Among the children playing or walking with their parents, there is not a brother or sister to be seen. This is the simple but profound effect of China's one-child policy; the government's desperate, long-running experiment in population control and social engineering dealing with the use of birth-control, oral contraceptives, and family planning. China's actions in implementing the one-child policy laws are due to the obvious overpopulation in their country, an issue that is seriously threatening the future of its people. Though they go against traditional Chinese custom, China's harsh policies of population control are indeed justified. Overcrowding almost always results in the ecological problems China is facing. Sadly, not only have people created many of the earth's existing environmental struggles, like pollution, but also, they become the victims of it as well. Though many do not realize it, the environment plays a huge role in society. It deals with everything from the heat that the sun provides, to the food that ends up on
Regulating China's birthrate contributes to the well being of the country's people. According to Ancient Chinese culture, it is custom to have many children, but as time has advanced the modern generations have grown more lenient to that tradition. "Some experts think the responsibilities of raising a child are so severe in modern Chinese society that if everyone were suddenly allowed to have two children, many would still decided not to do it" (Lev p. 4). Information on family planning has educated hopeful parents on why exactly the government has decided to enforce harsh, but crucial laws like the one-child policy. "The government works in alliance with China's State Family Planning Commission, State Statistics Bureau, State Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Public Security" (Stepanek p. 9). In fact, China's government offers money and birth control contraceptives at little or no cost in encouragement to decrease the number of births. People's lives can be made much less complicated in the issue of exceeding the one-child policy with the help of China's government. In some cases, women are even given money to ensure they will not have any more children. Not only does China's population receive encouragement and support from the government, but also encouragement from the United States government. "President Clinton has begun a campaign to Evans 4 the working age-group between fifteen and sixty-four, about twenty-million more than in all the developed nations of the world put together, which would make full employment difficult" (Stepanek p. 4). The concern for lack of jobs leading to homelessness, starvation and poverty is also directly associated with the baggage of crime and drugs. A society will deteriorate if there is an excess amount of crime, which is a very strong possibility for China. China's future without regulation, though it goes against traditional values, does not look good with the current, and ever-growing, population. Evans 2 It is true that China enforces harsh policies of population control that were certainly not present in the days of Kung Fu Tze and Lao Tzu. These policies are hard to accept for some who think they are unnatural inconsis
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