China and its one child policy
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| one child policy |
I
was fed up of the growing number of newly grown "days" for celebrating
love last month such as rose day , hug day,blah blah. Among my peers I
have seen many talented ones who have gained expertise in two timings
but to a contrast think about the young population of a country where
they don't have option for even affording a single date and that is due
to regressive policy of a country who is in a rat race to achieve the
status of super power,probably a case where emotionlities has to be
submissive before materialistic world.Yes my reference is to People's
Republic of China.
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| one child policy |
Enacted
in 1979 it is believed that 200 million births were averted between the
period of 1979 to 2009.If we look up at the history of this not so very
great country we find that soon after its formation China in 1949
picked up this issue and focussed on promoting measures such as late
marriages , contraceptive measures and Intra utrine devices. By these
steps they were successful in attaining the birth rate to 1% per
annum,but still they felt that those extra 1% will account to more use
of natural resources so they targeted 0 % population growth. Its hard to
overlook that this policy have resulted sex imbalance,female foeticide
and forced sterilization. There was an upsurge in number of peoples
aborting their girl child so that they can have a boy child.At present
the maximum population of China is too old to serve in the interest of
the country and this is all because of one child policy. Some statistics
shows that in 2004 for every 100 girls there were 121.2 boys took
birth! Even it showed some preference to economical sound peoples as
they can get away from the policy constraints by paying huge amount of
money. It has given a birth to a situation where a single individual has
to take care of their four grand parents often leaving them
unsuccessful.
Time to time the government have losen the
norms of the policy giving some benefits to rural population or to the
parents who have no siblings this clearly shows how confused the
government is regarding this policy.
Final note:
I
think of all the anamolies and growing discontent around the globe
China should either have a convincing answers to all the rising
questions or should show sign of some bigger reforms.
