China's anti-natal, one child policy.

China’s one child policy has plenty of positive and negative aspects to it. In 1970 the average women had 6 children in China, now it is only two; it has prevented more than 250 million births in the country. To encourage the population to only have one child they have come up with incentives such as the one-child certificate. They will get other surpluses such as; an extra month’s wages until the child is 14, also they are giving interest free loans, retirement funds are boosted, better housing and healthcare and finally priority to school enrolment. The country has had great success with the policy, especially as only 37.5% of the population are under it excluding cities like Hong Kong.

Some of the negatives that have been perceived from the one child policy are people cheating the system. Some children are shuffled to live with relatives and their surnames are just simply changed, resulting in an estimated 6 million undocumented children. Moreover this in May 2007 riots broke out in Bobai and Shabei , between 300 and 3000 people participated in the demonstrations.  Furthermore in the 1980s there were rumours that human rights had been breached, some extreme cases torture had been reported.

I think that the once child policy has had a great success in China in helping reduce the population, however I believe that despite them not reviewing the policy until 2050 they should investigate it sooner. Because I believe that if they let the policy continue for too long than they may suffer from an ageing population.