Has the Chinese government made a smart decision by introducing the One Child Policy?

Question

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Answer 1

With hundreds of baby girls being abandoned and forced abortions being carried out on chinese women as late as 9 months pregnant I would argue 'No, its not a smart decision'.

Answer 2

China's family planning policy has prevented 400 million births, officials say.

Since the regulations were introduced in 1979, China has kept its population in check using persuasion, coercion and encouragement.

And it looks likely that, nearly 30 years after the policy was first introduced, it will not be relaxed to allow couples to have more children.

Many Chinese and foreign academics believe this is a mistake and will result in a number of serious demographic problems in the future.

At a press conference earlier this year, Chinese officials were keen to declare the controversial policy a success.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_p...

http://geography.about.com/od/population...

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-chinas-o...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/world/...

Answer 3

Well it was instituted to attempt to help with the over population problem.  The side effect is that the population is aging faster because of fewer people being born to replace the aging population.  That equals a steadily diminishing ratio of working to non-working people.  And like our country, which the working people support the non-working people by way of social security, it could be bad for China in the long run.

Answer 4

Well, there's good news and bad news.

The good news is they got their population boom under control.

The bad news is they have 25 million horny young men that can't find Chinese wives because there aren't enough.