asian issues- China's one child rule
...sed urbanization. There is a policy needed to raise the minimum standard of living for China’s current population. In 1979, China's Government created a law to calm the growing population, called the "one-child rule". Strictly enforced, each couple was allowed to have one and only one child. Couples who attempted to have more than one were fined, their additional children were aborted, and some were forced to be sterilized after multiple violations of the law. This policy is still in effect today. There have been problems of abortion, neglect, abandonment, and infanticide. These problems are very severe, The results of the policies set forth by the 'one-child rule are widespread, changing the entire demographic makeup of the country. While China had an extremely large child population and very small elderly population in the last quarter of the 20th century, Currently, the majority of the citizens in the 21st Century will be adults, with a shrinking child population. This solution of having only one child will not work, because it just creates mo...