China's One Child Policy

Yesterday my class had a discussion about China's one child policy. At the end of the day we were asked to make headlines of the discussion. My headline was "Is China Right? There is another way."

I chose to use this as my headline because I personally thought that this rule was a cruel way to stop the over population in China and that there could be a better way.

First of all the one child policy is where you can have only one child to stop the over population that had been made. Many people didn't like this rule but if they tried to rebel you would suffer from huge fines such as losing you job. This made everyone follow the rule but there was another problem. since people could only have one child, most of the couples wanted their child to be a boy because people favored the male side better the female. Not only that but if couples did have a boy they were desperate enough to do abortion when the girl was in the mother and is the girl was already born they would expose the child so she would die and have a son. On and on this lead into different problems caused by this rule that no one liked.

I personally think there is another way to stop this problem without such a cruel punishment.