Human Populations One Child China Grows Up - 982 Words

Chapter 4: Human Populations: One-Child China Grows Up Summary Who? (People Involved) †¢ â€Å"Little Emperors† †¢ Chinese Leaders †¢ Thomas Malthus, an English Priest †¢ Wang Feng, Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy †¢ Susan Greenhalgh, Harvard University Anthropologist and author of a book called Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China. †¢ Qin Yijao and family †¢ Therese Hesketh, a global health professor at University of College London. What? (Environmental Issue) †¢ Overpopulation, high total fertility rates. †¢ It was mentioned that today the nation with the most population is China. †¢ The health and well being of both women and children. †¢ Abortion and sterilization rates soared, resulting in more†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¢ It’s essential to know that in 1949, China had a population 3 times the size of the United States of 500 million. This was after life expectancy had increased from age 45 to 60. †¢ In the later part of 1950’s, famine was the culprit of 30 million lives. †¢ 1970’s the government blamed overpopulation after there was a dreadful shortage of consumer goods. This led the Chinese leaders to mandate a command of having no more than one-child per family in 1979. †¢ In 1998, an earlier Chinese family planning official let it be known that women giving birth were forced to have an abortion. †¢ 2008, it was reported by The Telegraph that 20,000 sterilizations and abortions were ordered as a country in Guangdong failed to follow the one-child policy. †¢ It was in 2002 that the Chinese government banned the use of physical force to control a woman to be sterilized or have an abortion. †¢ By 2011, the fertility rate in China dropped to 1.54 and declared to have prevented a daunting 400 million births. Where? †¢ China, where the one-child policy takes place †¢ Mentions of other countries including the United States in terms of comparisons and facts. Why? (Why it is happening) †¢ As the crude death rate decreases, the crude birth rate rose. †¢ Migration played a role †¢ Due to agricultural and economic policies causing lives to be taken away from