Post 2: China's 'One Family, One Child' Policy

China's Controversial Methods

I'm sure everyone has heard about the Chinese government's policy of allowing each family to have only one child. At first I thought it was some outlandish myth created to stir up controversy about a foreign nation, but I later realized that it is actually a very real institution. I think a lot of people believe view the policy as draconian, but when you think about it, it actually makes a lot of sense.

Before I begin, I feel that it is important to point out that I do believe that this policy is very unethical.

I do not support the Chinese government taking away children from their families simply because a piece of legislation

requires it. However, try to approach this situation from the perspective of the Chinese government. There are over

1.3 billion documented Chinese citizens trying to squeeze into a country almost exactly the size of the United States, which

houses only 300 million. Does China really need more citizens to worry about when a decent amount of the country has

yet to be industrialized? With the Chinese standard of living already much lower than the American standard of living,

does the country really need more mouths to feed, educated, and clothe? The amount of resources China requires to

sustain itself at this point has never been seen before. China is expanding more rapidly and more productively than any

other country in history, but adding more people to this equation would only make it more difficult for the country's infrastructure

to sustain and expand upon itself.

Despite China's massive economic boom, allowing its citizens to breed without restrictions would slow the pace of its expansion

and make it more difficult for the government to tend to its population of already very hard-working citizens. The

policy of 'One Family, One Child' might not be 'fair', it is there to aid in the creation of a successful future for the country.