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Population Control and One Child Policy

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This entry was posted on Sunday, April 26th, 2009.

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I figured that the one child policy is a specialty policy only China, any other countries has no this policy, right? One child policy means that advocating one child for one couple, not allowed the second for them.

Around the world, whether other countries carry out this policy? I have to agree, this policy effective control the population for China. Howevery, China’s population is too large, there were roughly 1.3 billion people there, it accounted for one a fifth of the world’s population.

One child policy performed since 1979, I was born in 1982, that is to say I am very fortunate to catch up with this policy - I am a singleton, no brothers and no sisters.

So far, this policy as a basic national policy has been performed more than 25 years, so most Chinese young people are singleton today.

The aging society question in China is more and more pressing at present, that is to say China faces with the problem of the population fault, and perhaps decades later, the number of China’s population will be a huge decline.

Thus on the issue of population control, as same as 25 years ago, Chinese government have to research how to increase the population and control the population balance. The solution of the population control will be a fairly long and complex process, the key is people who have to really see the long term.

So as to prevent population fell sharply, one child policy has been modified. In some cities, allowed the second baby for couples if the dad and mon are all singelton. That means if someone is singelton, and his wife also singleton, they could get two babies :D

I’m not sure the modify is really, because I did not read news from any offical newspaper.

I like children, and I think two children is better. If there just one child in a family, it’s too lonely for the child. I am lonely when I was a child, no friends and brothers play with me in my childhood. If I became father, I hope my wife is going to have two babies. If three, I will be the happiest, three children must be very funny for a family.

How did you think about the China’s one family one child policy? Is there similar policy in your country? How many children do you want?

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9 Responsesto “Population Control and One Child Policy”

kbguy
April 27th, 2009 at 5:20 am

It’s good for a country with 1.3 billion population. See what’s going to happen to India.
But with such a big country like China, and well control, the economy should boom as buying power increase.Unfortunately, things doesn’t happened in India and Indonesia.
Singapore also control the number of kids. I think it’s 2. But in our country, the former Prime Minister encourage people to have 5. haha..!
The disadvantage is that with 1 kid per couple, in future the kid will have 0 relatives.
However you’ll be lucky as you’ll inherit all the property your mom and dad have. And the luckiest one is your son or daughter as he/she will inherit all the property the dad, mom, paternal grandpa and paternal grandma, maternal grandpa and maternal grandma have. Not only monetary richness, he/she will also enjoy all the love from 3 couples ie. dad n mom, and both grandparents ! How fortunate ! Hope they will not become a spoilt kid !

kbguy (福生)
April 28th, 2009 at 9:19 am

please check my translated blog, thanks.

ShangNing
April 28th, 2009 at 9:37 am

Hi, kbguy, I can read your translated blog, it is all became Chinese :)

kbguy (福生)
May 4th, 2009 at 3:23 am

Mr Shang, I hope we can meet up in Beijing exactly one month’s time.

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May 4th, 2009 at 8:47 am

Hi, nice post. I have been thinking about this topic,so thanks for posting. I will certainly be coming back to your posts.

ShangNing
May 17th, 2009 at 1:38 am

so, when u coming here? I’m waiting you :)

kbguy (福生)
May 17th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

June 4th. How can I get you ?

fiftypushing
June 9th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Hi shangning, I love your thoughtful blog. I live in South Africa where you can have as many children as you want. The poor generally have too many. my family has between 2 and 4 children (most are wealthy farmers.) I have 3 children but I feel guilty about it because of the world over-population problems. I read that in central Africa, poor natives have often 12 - 14 children. Can that be right? I think China is to be admired, even though it is lonely for you.

Melissa
February 18th, 2010 at 10:00 pm

I was an only child growing up, I was lonely and always dreamed of having a brother or sister. My mom had a baby when I was 13, so it was too late to enjoy. Now, I have 5 children and I am happy with this because I feel like our house is full of life. It is not always easy, and we live in a small town with not a lot of people so population is not an issue. I think telling people how many children they can have is not right because it should be a personal freedom to have control of your reproduction. It’s hard though because many people can not afford to have children. I think the majority of people are choosing not to have many or any children so it will balance out here in the U.S, statistics show families are getting smaller and smaller. Here in the U.S. many people here adopt children from China, how is this if Chinese are only allowed one child? I think this is also odd because historically Americans have not been kind to Chinese but the Chinese government lets U.S. adopt? Maybe because of the overpopulation? It confuses me. I think if you have more than one child and you teach them to be kind, open minded and accepting, they will change the world for the better and maybe cancel out some of the ignorance and cruelty. Maybe this is wishful thinking. I think at least two children should be allowed because having a sibling is a great experience and allows the child to have a family connection after their parents are gone.

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