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| China's one child policy was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to limit communist China's population growth. |
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| The policy limits couples to one child. Fines, pressures to abort a pregnancy, and even forced sterilization accompanied second or subsequent pregnancies |
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| Citizens living in rural areas and minorities living in China are not subject to the law. However, the rule has been estimated to have reduced population growth in the country of 1.3 billion by as much as 300 million people over its first twenty years. |
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| If a couple is composed of two people without siblings, then they may have two children of their own, thus preventing too dramatic of a population decrease. |
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| There are 300,000 officials whose job is to enforce the One-Child Policy, and a total of 92 million members who help out with enforcement. |
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| The One-Child Policy seems to be causally linked to the increased sex ratio in China. Mothers who face stricter restrictions and higher fines are more likely to have a son once they are facing possible punishment. |
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| The One- Child Policy violates provisions of the “Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women. |
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| the Chinese government boasts that the One-Child Policy has prevented 400 million births. |
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| The one-child policy has been spectacularly successful in reducing population growth, particularly in the cities (reliable figures are harder to come by in the countryside). |
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| In 1970 the average woman in China had almost six (5.8) children, now she has about two. The most dramatic changes took place between 1970 and 1980 when the birthrate dropped from 44 per 1000 to 18 per 1,000. Demographers have stated that the ideal birthrate rate for China is 16.7 per 1,000, or 1.7 children per family. |
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| One way the government records progress in its birth control programs is by monitoring the "first baby" rate—the proportion of first babies among total births. In the city of Chengdu in Sichuan for a while the first baby rate was reportedly 97 percent. |
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| Some parents who broke the one child policy have were required to pay their fine with grain: 200 kilograms of unmilled rice |
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| The one-child policy also has been severely criticized. There have been reports of some provinces forcing women who became pregnant in violation of the policy to undergo late-term abortions or sterilizations. There were earlier stories of female infants being killed because of a preference for boys. China now has a gender imbalance due to the policy |
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| children born to parents that have reached their one-child limit often have a rough ride. Some are denied a birth certificate and proper documentation. This effects them for the rest of their life. Without proper papers these children can not enter school, find work as adults or do most of anything legally. |
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| According to some estimated there are 6 million undocumented children in China. Most of them are believed to be girls. |
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| To get around the one child policy, parents give birth abroad or pretend their first child is handicapped or get divorced and remarried. |
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| 70.7 percent of chinese women would like to have two or more babies. |
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| Urban parents are permitted to have two children if the husband and wife were only children. |
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| Now that millions of sibling-less people in China are now young adults in or nearing their child-bearing years, a special provision allows millions of couples to have two children legally. |
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| China is expected to peak in population around 2030 with 1.46 billion people and then begin falling to 1.3 billion by 2050. |
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| Families who are permitted to have a second child usually have to wait from three to four years after the birth of the first child before conceiving their second child. |
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