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China’s One Child Policy
In our society, the United States, children are seen potentially as the future. ... The country attempted to cure some of its population woes by establishing the one-child policy. This policy was passed in 1979, and it restricts how many children each Chinese family can have. The controversy surrounding the issue is whether or not China should keep this policy existing. ... Some even think more countries should pass policy like China has. On the other hand, some feel the policy should be banned because of the children’s lives that are being put at risk.
The policy known as the one-child policy restricts urban couples to one child and allows rural couples a second child if their first is a girl (LexisNexis, Aug. ... First of all, are they willing to keep the child since it is the only one they can legally keep? If the couple decides they want a male, they must decide what to do with this child. In 1981, Judith Banister testified that the one-child policy prompted parents to kill an estimated 230,000 female babies (Anderson, Donna).
Approximate Word count = 848
Approximate Pages = 3.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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