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	One-child policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		What is commonly known as the One-child Policy in the West is a term used to describe the birth control (Chinese: 计划生育) policies of mainly urban populations by the government of the People's Republic of China.
		One-child policy has been criticised by human rights advocacy groups, especially Western religious advocacy groups.
		The social pressure exerted by the one-child policy has affected the rate at which parents abandon undesirable children, and the state often fails to provide adequate care.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/One_child_policy (1634 words)

	One Child Rule in China
		The one-child policy is still strictly enforced in the nation's largest cities like Shanghai and Beijing, where penalties for having a second child remain onerous, like loss of a job and a fine equivalent to three years' salary for each parent.
		Li, who said part of his desire for a second child was a wish for a son, said he faced none of the other pressure that used to accompany official efforts to discourage extra childbearing.
		It is that image of China that has provoked strong objection from religious and political groups in the United States, where thousands of Chinese apply for political asylum each year by asserting that being limited to one child is a form of political persecution.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/chinpop.htm (1991 words)

	BBC News ASIA-PACIFIC China steps up 'one child' policy
		The 'one child' policy stipulates each couple living in the cities should only have one child, unless one or both of the couple are from an ethnic minority or they are both only children.
		The one-child policy was introduced to ensure that China, which has historically been prone to floods and famine, could feed all its people.
		Backed by the punitive sanctions, the 'one child' policy has generally worked in the cities.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/941511.stm (452 words)

	Conscience and one child policy - China
		When the one-child policy was established in 1979 we needed a lot of specialist gynaecologists and obstetricians to support that policy.
		The reason for asking the question is that I have been tld that the one-child policy is not enforced equally throughout the whole of the country.
		It is only for this one-child policy that they came to the hospital; like they are coming to jail.
	www.consciencelaws.org /Repression-Conscience/Conscience-Repression-13.html (1282 words)

	WowEssays.com - Chinas One Child Policy
		The policy is like this; a mother may only have only one child, if the child is born with a serious disability (and would be unable to support the family in their old age) or if the child dies, then they are allowed to have another child.
		Some would say that the one child policy is immoral, and you cannot deny natural rights such as the amount of children one has.
		Chinas one chilled policy is a way for it to control the population while maintaining friendly relations with its people.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ae4/smr117.shtml (573 words)

	China_one_child_policy
		The moral and ethical problems with the one-child policy (hereafter referred to as the OCP) and some of its repugnant consequences, esp. in the 1980s, are one of the things that’s made me somewhat sympathetic to demands in Congress for improvements in the Chinese government’s human rights record before MFN status is extended.
		compulsory; China's one-child policy isn't some etched-in-stone statute on the books, but an unofficial series of inducements to reduce (primarily urban) family size, along with a series of financial and social disincentives to exceeding de facto two kids, even though it was originally geared toward only one child in the late 1970s.
		drinking age here in the US, the one-child policy sets forth a guideline and expresses a general proclivity on the part of a government (for a more sustainable population in this case), but everybody knows that it will be widely flouted and that loopholes will be
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~ulm/usenet/China_one_child_policy.htm (1960 words)

	China Eases One-Child Policy -
		Adoptions from China soared from 201 in 1989 to 5,053 in 2002 in this country alone, and the one-child policy certainly has to be considered a major factor in this enormous jump.
		For the past 20 years, "encouraging" Chinese couples to limit the size of their families to one child has been employed as a means of controlling that country's soaring population growth.
		Restrictions on adoption by Chinese couples with existing children are being eased as well, provisions for which first appeared in the amended Adoption Law that went into effect April 1, 1999.
	www.adopting.org /adoptions/china-eases-one-child-policy.html (373 words)

	One-Child Policy in China
		The one-child policy has certainly contributed to the stark gender imbalance in China, which, according to the 2000 census, was about 117 males to 100 females.
		We believe China’s population policies, including the so-called "one-child" policy, are undergoing an assessment and evaluation with the Chinese leadership.
		The law grants married couples the right to have a single child and allows eligible couples to apply for permission to have a second child if they meet conditions stipulated in local and provincial regulations.
	www.state.gov /g/prm/rls/39823.htm (1885 words)

	The one-child policy: an analysis
		The One-Child Policy, while increasing GDP per capita in the short run, might have an adverse long run effect because each child born now has two parents and four grandparents that have to be supported in their old age.
		The One-Child Policy is an excellent case study for analyzing how a change in the population and crude birth rates changes per capita income.
		Hua Goufeng’s reason for enacting The One Child Policy was to align individual interests with the interests of the country as a whole.
	www.lclark.edu /~econ/China.htm (7537 words)

	The Epoch Times China Plans to Change Its One-Child Policy
		One of the main reasons for relaxing the one-child policy is that China is experiencing severe aging problems which have caused a growing burden for the government.
		In addition, the one-child policy forced more savings for retirement, which is causing less spending and fewer investments.
		TAIPEI -- China’s stringent one-child policy is being re-evaluated after 20 years of enforcement.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-11-6/24206.html (259 words)

	China One Child Policy
		The One Child Policy exists because there is a need for China to decrease the growth in it's population.
		In China, married couples are only allowed to have one child; the policy that states this is called the One Child Policy.
		An example of the harshness of China's population control laws is the case of one woman who was pregnant with her second child.
	nhs.needham.k12.ma.us /cur/kane97/P6/eep6/eep6.html (671 words)

	CHINA: one child policy
		Paul Simon answers my question about China's one child policy: "There are a LOT of exceptions to the 'one child policy' of the PRC: all minorities (that's hundreds of millions of folks), not just Manchus, can have two children.
		When the policy was implemented in the 70's, it was claimed that the population would not exceed 1 billion at year 2000.
		Farmers can have more kids (I THINK the rule is that if the first child is a girl, they can have a second child).
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/China/china_onechildpolicy22302.html (263 words)

	China's One Child Policy
		The "one-child" policy is not a law, as most people think it is, "it is a policy enforced by the system of punishments" (www.cen.uci.edu~m-ulrich/eal/paper.html).
		There can be exceptions to the "one-child" policy, some families have had up to three children without a punishment.
		The reason they are doing all this, is because she is a girl, and China has a strict Marriage Law and a violating "one-child" policy.
	nhs.needham.k12.ma.us /cur/kane98/kanep2/chinas1kid/dcva2.html (730 words)

	-Interim,October 2000 China's one child policy
		This is the brutal enforcement of China's barbaric one-child policy.
		Indeed, the one-child policy has led to many families killing newborn girls because of a preference for male children.
		Strongly condemning the one-child policy, Manthrope said, "Local family planning units can be tyrannical in the extreme," keeping "dossiers on each woman of child-bearing age, often including their menstrual cycles."
	www.theinterim.com /2000/oct/14china.html (704 words)

	Population control: China's one-child policy
		Misleading claims about the law are being put forward by defenders of the one-child policy, but the law's true purpose is to "uphold a single-child policy for married couples" (article 18; note that unmarried people are not permitted to have children) and to legitimise coercion by reclassifying it as law enforcement.
		Despite over three decades of reports in the West of the crimes of the one-child policy, very little is being done by governments and human rights organisations about the policy.
		This is partly because the policy's victims are mainly the unborn, whom the Western world largely neglect, but also partly because many Western governments and wealthy population control agencies support the policy in various ways.
	www.spuc.org.uk /lobbying/population-control-china (623 words)

	China’s One-Child Policy
		The principal modification of the one-child policy occurred in the mid-eighties when, in response to rising levels of female infanticide, the government relaxed the policy in the countryside for couples whose first child was a girl.
		In many parts of China this has devolved into a de facto two-child policy, as rural officials found the selective enforcement of a mixed policy-one child for couples whose first child was a boy, two children for couples whose first child was a girl-difficult to manage.
		The one-child policy, first adumbrated by Deng Xiaoping in a 1979 speech, was in place nationwide by 1981.
	www.pop.org /main.cfm?EID=699 (901 words)

	For One-Child Policy, China Rethinks Iron Hand
		The general policy is that only certain families may have more than one child: those who belong to ethnic minorities, rural families whose first child is a daughter, families where both parents are themselves only children, and families in which the first child is handicapped.
		The ultimate aim is still to control this vast country's population growth, yielding families with one child in the cities and generally two in rural areas.
		Officials here assert that having an extra child has never really been regarded as a crime and that the payments are not "fines," as they were commonly called in the past.
	www.uwmc.uwc.edu /geography/demotrans/irnhnd.htm (1680 words)

	Features: One child policy
		But China's one-child policy is credited with putting the brakes on a population that at 1.3 billion ranks as the world's largest.
		Li Guijun, who is a teacher at the Beijing Central Art Academy and the father of Yide, the young movie aficionado, sees the products of China's one-child policy as they move through his classroom.
		Some wealthier couples are choosing to have more than one child and pay the penalty, which varies depending on the locality.
	www.cyc-net.org /features/ft-onechild.html (977 words)

	Sun.Star Davao - Lee: One child policy
		The one child policy has actually gone and created a whole generation of youth that is universally trained to getting what they want.
		China, by creating its one-child policy, is now grappling with another deadly problem, that of juvenile delinquency and crime.
		Plus, there is usually the extra unmarried aunt or uncle who dotes on this same child in lieu of their own.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/dav/2002/11/15/oped/kelvin.lee.html (756 words)

	Free Essay China's One Child Policy
		China's one-child policy has brought so many problem, that one needs to wonder if it was actually a good idea in the first place.
		Sure, the one-child policy will reduce the population growth rate, but it might lower to a point where reproduction occurs very rarely.
		The one child policy, although not formally written into law consisted of three main points.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=27595 (1032 words)

	China: The One-Child Policy
		Because of the Chinese tradition involving giving birth to at least one male child, female infants are often killed, aborted, or left to die so the family may have a boy that is, because in most cases, the One-Child Policy allows only one child.
		Now that many of China's babies affected by the One-Child Policy have reached reproductive and marrying age, there has been more notice given to the fact that there are not enough women for men to marry.
		riginally, the One-Child Policy called for enforcing laws allowing each couple within China just one child that is, boy or girl a policy to be strictly enforced by a government already looked down upon for its human rights violations.
	www.beaglebass.com /one_child.htm (2614 words)

	China Considers Revising its "One Child" Policy
		China's first draft law revising its coercive "one-child" policy of forced abortions and forced sterilizations was tabled before lawmakers earlier last week, the People's Daily reports.
		Zhang said the coercive "one-child" policies put in place 20 years ago were working.
		Each couple would be encouraged to have one only child, while those meeting "legal conditions" - usually set by provincial authorities and already in place - could have a second.
	www.sclj.org /news/nr_010504_china_revising.asp (399 words)

	peopleandplanet.net > population pressures > features > china's one-child policy enters new phase
		He added that the one-child policy is not a perfect means to control population but it is effective in slowing down the fast growth a population as big as China's.
		Twenty-one years after it introduced its ‘one child’ population policy, China is keeping its promise to allow only-children who marry each other, to have a second child.
		And Government officials have confirmed that the policy itself will be phased out once the first one-child generation has grown up.
	www.peopleandplanet.net /doc.php?id=771 (1016 words)

	Asia-Russia
		The one child policy was started to regulate family size after the population explosion; it has succeeded all to well.
		If the one child policy is revoked too quickly, officials fear some of the gains made in the past two decades could be erased.
		Couple Fined $94,000 For One-Child Policy Lapse (www.chinadaily.com.cn)
	unix.dfn.org /ChinasOneChildPolicy.shtml (814 words)

	NOVA World in the Balance Population Campaigns PBS
		China's Communist Party first implemented the "one child" rule—perhaps the best-known population policy in the world—in the 1970s amidst growing concerns over whether the famine-prone country could continue to feed its skyrocketing population.
		The policy has generally worked, and fertility rates have fallen to an average of about two children per woman, down from more than five children per woman in the 1950s.
		Families that violate the rule where it is most strictly enforced face mandatory abortions and severe financial penalties, while single-child couples throughout the country are entitled to better child care, preferential housing assignments, and cash bonuses.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/worldbalance/campaigns.html (860 words)

	China News: Asia Times Online is a quality Internet-only publication that reports and examines geopolitical, political, economic and business issues. Discount Car Rentals in Asia
		The family-planing policy stipulates that each couple living in the cities should have only one child, unless one or both of the couple are from an ethnic minority or they are both only children.
		It says that the "one child" policy was responsible for preventing 250 million births in the past 20 years.
		The law would bestow a legal mantle on the country's one-child population policy, which has been in practice since 1980.
	www.atimes.com /china/CE24Ad02.html (1032 words)

	china's one child policy
		In order to enforce the One-Child policy, after the birth of the first child, the insertion of an intrauterine device (IUD) is mandatory.
		In the 1980s, the policy was amended slightly to allow a second child for couples living in rural regions whose first child had been a girl.
		Since the 1979 One-Child Act was enforced, it has become a crime for a woman to conceive a child without permission, and a so-called "unregistered" child will be aborted, or even killed at birth.
	www.catholicherald.com /articles/03articles/china0320.htm (1686 words)

	IPA NY Voices That Must Be Heard
		The application of the plaintiff for political asylum on the grounds of the One Child Policy was rejected in 2003.
		Arbitrariness is how U.S. judges interpret the threat of China’s policy limiting families to one child, makimg the application of political asylum a game of lottery.
		Jiang then petitioned to reopen his case arguing that having two children would make him punishable under China’s One Child Policy if he were deported.
	www.indypressny.org /article.php3?ArticleID=1928 (608 words)

	China Admits its Girl Shortage Caused by One Child Policy is a "Major Threat"
		Authorities contend there are no plans to scrap the one-child policy, although an easing of restrictions has occurred in some areas.
		With a continuation of the current policy, by 2020, the gender discrepancy will be as high as 40 million more men than women.
		Officials are trying to curb female infanticide and selective abortion by outlawing ultrasonography for determining the sex of the child, as well as imposing fines for people caught killing a child.
	www.lifesite.net /ldn/2004/may/04051107.html (498 words)

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