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Population Policy China has a huge population that the government is trying to control, but their way of controling it isn't too great. Read the information below to figure out what the the Chinese governmnt is doing.

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China has a strict law called the 1- Child Policy. This law means that the citizens of China can only have one child, & if they have a 2nd they get fined, there baby gets put up for adoption or killed, & the parents sometimes have to go through forced sterilization. The parents even go to the extreme of hiding their 2nd child in rooms & houses where the government won't find them. One major issue in China, besides the population, is female infanticide. Female infanticide is the killing or the practice of killing a female infant. Chinese parents do this because they believe the women aren’t as great as the men because the men carry on the family name, can do more labor, & work harder. Considering the Chinese can only have one child they usually kill the girls so they can have a boy to do all their work, & the other reasons above. Chinese government has been trying to keep their population under control since 1979 when the One- Child Policy started. They've had some success preventing 400 million births from 1979- 2010 by using abortion, female infanticide, & forced sterilization, but considering China has a population of 1.3 billion people, 400 million prevented births only made a little dent in their population. A lot of parents who have a 2nd child are forced to give it up for adoption. Over 55,000 Chinese girls where adopted into America, & there's still a lot coming. Not everyone in China has to follow the policy, only urban couples have to. The policy allows rural couples, ethnic minorities, & parents without any siblings themselves to have a 2nd child. That doesn't mean that the urban couples follow the law, because many urban Chinese couples have a 2nd child but they hide it from the government.

The 1- Child Policy has been going through many changes. In 2008 the Chinese government stated that the policy will remain in place for another decade. In 2010 it was announced that the majority of the citizens disagreed with the policy, so the deputy director of Commission told Chinese that the policy will remain unaltered until 2015. Finally, in March, 2011 the Chinese government reviewed the policy & under considerations allowed couples to have a 2nd child, but will this help the overcrowding problem? I guess we just have to wait & see what China's future holds.

__﻿ ﻿ Abortion__- **Termination of pregnancy﻿.** __Child Policy__- **The "Planning of birth" or the population control policy.** __Forced Sterilization__- **The act of being sterilized without any say, so you can't reproduce.** __Ethnic Minorities__- **An immagrant or racial group.** __Female Infanticide__- **The killing of a female infant.**



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