Evolution of the One Child Policy

The effects of the One Child Policy have been occurring for the last thirty years, since it was created in 1979. Since then it has been through more than enough trials and tribulations. But as the first 30-year-old generation is coming of age, the bad side affects of the policy are showing through, and people aren't happy about it. So the Chinese government is now taking all this into consideration and proposing a new policy to override the old one. The new and improved Two Child Policy. "Last week, in the plenary sessions of the annual Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the National People's Congress, a two-child policy was proposed, to start in 2015. Experts have suggested that the one-child policy has resulted in an increase in older people and a decrease in younger workers, as well as a sex-ratio imbalance, which might threaten China's economic growth." Finally, the higher authority and people in charge are coming to their senses and seeing that even though the policy has working for its intended reason of curbing and lowering the over-population in China, it's also created some adverse effects that need to be addressed. These include all of the problems of my previous posts and more. Some are:

1. spoiled children
2. obesity
3. a generation of only-children that are about to take over the jobs of China
4. minimal numbers of girls
5. reselling wives as sex slaves (abductions)
6. vast majority of males over females
7. killing of baby girls 
8. forced abortions
9. limited sex education
10. overrun orphanages
11. difficult adoption processes (which make it more difficult for people to adopt from overrun orphanages)

Many of these things could be avoided if the female population of China was increased once again. This is where the Two Child Policy will be better than the One Child Policy. Hopefully the Chinese population will be smarter about this the second time around and have one boy and one girl so that the sex ratio will be brought back down to normal. Hopefully, because there will now be two children in the household, that attention will be split and the obesity and spoiled-ness of the children will go down. But these are only my hopes for the future of China. All I can say is the Chinese government better know what they are getting themselves into this time around.