Question

Q1. The One child policy was introduced in China in 1979.
a) What was the one child policy?
b) Why was this policy introduced?
c) State one reason why it was a good policy, and one reason why it was a bad policy.

Answer 1

Answer

a. The one-child policy was a policy implemented by the Chinese government as a method of controlling the population, mandating that the vast majority of couples in the country could only have one child.

b. This was intended to alleviate the social, economic and environmental problems associated with the country's rapidly growing population.

c. Good reason- This was intended to alleviate the social, economic, and environmental problems associated with the country's rapidly growing population.

Bad reason- The policy also allowed exceptions for some other groups, including ethnic minorities. Thus, the term "one-child policy" has been called a "misnomer", because, for nearly 30 of the 36 years that it existed, about half of all parents in China were allowed to have a second child.