Criticisms+of+the+one+child+policy

If every couple in China had two children, instead of one, from the time the one child policy was introduced, then China would have been in poverty now. The one child policy ensures that China's citizens have a good standard of living in the future. China is a large country with an even larger population.

A disadvantage is the first generation won't have siblings, and the second generation won't have siblings or first cousins. Many children will be spoiled due to the parents always favoring that one child, resulting in the "little emperors". Another disadvantage is that women have always been considered not as good as men, although the Chinese Government has been trying to change that for years. Due to these factors, families sometime kill, or abandon their female child, in hopes of having a male. China now has an unbalanced population with a male to female ratio of 5:1.

Resulting from this, many female children steer towards child prostitution, in order to obtain money for their family. The communists who are ruling China have helped raise the status of women since they have been in power, but there is still a great lack of male and woman equality.

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Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/onechild.htm