Population Problem
China has a massive population problem and to deal with this massive issue they have created a radical policy. The policy was put into place for many reasons, some where more influential than others: 1) The great famine caused millions of deaths as the population out grew its food supply, there were simply too many mouths to feed.
2) After the Second World War Chinas population grew massively as the government wanted to build its workforce and army up after Japan committed terrible war crimes against them.
The policy impacted China badly as the policy stated you could only have one child. In China males are preferred to females as they can carry on the family name and they do not have to give a doury when engaged. The preference of males meant that people started to legally and illegally abort female babies. Some babies were found in gutters as people so badly wanted a boy, they simply threw them away. This is known as infanticide. Because so many families only had a baby, if it was a male this caused massive inequality in the male to female ratio. Many men struggled to find a partner and so whole towns became dedicated to single men, the lonely lifestyle also increased suicide rates.
The policy did actually set out to do what it was suppose to do. It brought the birth rate down and decreased the growth of Chinas population. Not only did it work on a whole but it had side benefits. Chinas families now have the ability to focus all their attention on the one child, this became known as creating little emperors. These kids now gain a better quality of life and become well educated which means they can earn money and generate income for China.
In conclusion, I think the bad effects outweigh the good effects but if the population was allowed to keep increasing then China would become stuck and would crumble under the pressure of its population.