What do you think of China's One-child policy?

What do you guys think about China's one-child policy? Are you for, or against it? 

They have their reasons for it

Considering the huge population issue in that country, I'm for.

I do understand the reasons behind it. But unfortunately it lead up to that most families wanted a son for some reason, and therefore a lot of girls were thrown out on the streets.

It is needed, but what has happened due to it is horrible...

" They have their reasons for it "

Yeah, the forced abortions, forced sterilizations, and female infanticide resulting in a skewed population with more males that females. Yeah, that's great. I wonder if you people know what you support?

I think there is a real risk of the world becoming over populated. I don't agree with any government telling people how many chldren they can have, or any other aspect of how to live their lives. However, I am pretty sure China has lifted this policy recently. It wasn't even strictly enforced outside of the heavily populated regions of the country.    

" It is needed, but what has happened due to it is horrible... "

" Yeah, the forced abortions, forced sterilizations, and female infanticide resulting in a skewed population with more males that females. Yeah, that's great. I wonder if you people know what you support? "

I think more countries should adopt a similar idea. 
 
It should be something like if you have 1 kid you get x amount of benefits. If you have 2 kids, you get half the benefits. 3 or more kids and you get no benefits plus if you have more than 3 kids you get to pay extra taxes.
 
and if you have 0 kids, you get even more benefits.
 
Then again, who are we to say how many kids a person can and cannot have?

No opinion.

" I do understand the reasons behind it. But unfortunately it lead up to that most families wanted a son for some reason, and therefore a lot of girls were thrown out on the streets. "

If you have twins you better pick a favorite quickly.

" If you have twins you better pick a favorite quickly. "

" @Jasta said:

" If you have twins you better pick a favorite quickly. "

There is no penalty for having twins. "

Seeing as how we are already over-populated, greedy motherfuckers eating up all the food, the policy makes a lot of sense, and would come in handy in our God-forsaken Christians-having-20-kids country. Our two-sided "democracy" has given rise to economic, political and social stagnation, and even though China is technically communist, and therefore inherently evil, they're acting in the greater good of the future and their children, something our country's people can't understand enough to implement a similar rule.

I am reminded of it every time I see an incredibly stupid family in public that has a lot of kids.
 
I am a terrible person.

Most African countries should also enforce it. They have outrageous birth rates.   
 

the world is already quite overpopulated.  i think that a majority of countries would have to pay a higher fee or something the more children that you have.  this is my opinion and everything (call me a hippie if you will) but the world should become less industrialized due to the fact we are fucking up the world.  its a shame that im slowly turning into an environmenatalist....

" @Jeust: Birth rate and total population should both be taken into account. Also, in those African countries, how many of those kids will make it to 60? "

 I don't know enough to be for or against it, only things I've been told. From what I do know maybe it would have worked better had girls been as valued as boys. 
 
(It was actually when I was 14 and heard about this I first decided I wanted to adopt)

Amazing how many people in here are for infanticide.

The policy itself is more a government induced trend than a government enforced law so there really is no reason to be against it from a civil standpoint.
 
The biggest problem though is that coupled with the tradition Asian value of wanting a male child over a female child, the population difference between the two genders is getting pretty damn huge.

" the world is already quite overpopulated.  i think that a majority of countries would have to pay a higher fee or something the more children that you have.  this is my opinion and everything (call me a hippie if you will) but the world should become less industrialized due to the fact we are fucking up the world.  its a shame that im slowly turning into an environmenatalist.... "

a... one-child policy ? the hell is that ?

I can't claim to have any knowledge of China or what ramifications the one-child policy has had on their society, but I think governments DO need to look into some way to control population. Unchecked reproduction isn't going to do anyone any favors.

" a... one-child policy ? the hell is that ? "

" @chstupid said:

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" Yeah, the forced abortions, forced sterilizations, and female infanticide resulting in a skewed population with more males that females. Yeah, that's great. I wonder if you people know what you support? "

This times 1000 I can't believe there are people for it. "

People are for it theoretically.  "

" I can't claim to have any knowledge of China or what ramifications the one-child policy has had on their society, but I think governments DO need to look into some way to control population. Unchecked reproduction isn't going to do anyone any favors. "

" @drag said:

" @chstupid said:

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" Yeah, the forced abortions, forced sterilizations, and female infanticide resulting in a skewed population with more males that females. Yeah, that's great. I wonder if you people know what you support? "

This times 1000 I can't believe there are people for it. "

People are for it theoretically.  "

Cram it, hippies. It's either that or MORE Chinese people. This planet can only support so many of them. Maybe you should be bitching about their backwards culture which leads them to kill all their female babies, kidnap farm girls, and group rape them? "

I prefer war when it comes to controlling population numbers. I guess you could say I'm more reactionary than proactive. 
I don't know why that last sentence is there.

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" a... one-child policy ? the hell is that ? "

A long while back (well before my own birth), the government began a program of encouraging having only one child per family.  Note that this never was, and still isn't an actual law. "

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" Yeah, the forced abortions, forced sterilizations, and female infanticide resulting in a skewed population with more males that females. Yeah, that's great. I wonder if you people know what you support? "

This times 1000 I can't believe there are people for it. "

I think we (as in humanity) would have way less problems if we would not become more and more and more. 
It's kind of crazy how we are now about 10 times more people on this earth than 100 years ago.

" @Turambar said:

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" a... one-child policy ? the hell is that ? "

A long while back (well before my own birth), the government began a program of encouraging having only one child per family.  Note that this never was, and still isn't an actual law. "

lol thats insane.. who would want a single child ?   well i dont ever want to have children but i mean other people.. they love making babies  "

While the one child policy is a controversial policy, it is a necessity to immediately slow down overpopulation in China to counteract the effects of Mao's encouragement of overpopulating. The explosion in population has made it so while the country has a healthy workforce, anymore would be difficult to maintain and construct a infrastructure to support it. China isn't a third world country where they can get away with overpopulation by having half of them starve to death or live in a life of poverty like African nations. If there were to be more and more people born in China as poor citizens (and mind you I mean very poor, literally homeless or live at the bottom of the lower class), the government may risk upraising. 
 
Unfortunately it is poorly implemented and has its own problems. There are still some Chinese who hold the gender culture, especially those who live in the rurals. Chinese who live in the more urban populated areas tend not to have any preferences, or isn't nearly as biased for male babies. Education is probably the best way to solve the issue at hand, but education takes time to kick into gear, so the one child policy is a remedy for the time being.

I say it's fine, we'll be overrun in a few hundred years, hopefully we'll find more habitable planets to populate once earth has been drained by then.

Sure. If they think it will help then I don't see why it wouldn't.

The one child policy has done far more harm than good. Greater education and urbanization would have naturally caused a decreased birth rate. Instead the policy has had mixed success slowing the birth rate, caused personal misery for the women who were forced to have abortions or undergo sterilization, festered corruption by local police and officials who extorted fines from families, created a gender imbalance, and has created the ticking time bomb to China's future social security.

" While the one child policy is a controversial policy, it is a necessity to immediately slow down overpopulation in China to counteract the effects of Mao's encouragement of overpopulating. The explosion in population has made it so while the country has a healthy workforce, anymore would be difficult to maintain and construct a infrastructure to support it. China isn't a third world country where they can get away with overpopulation by having half of them starve to death or live in a life of poverty like African nations. If there were to be more and more people born in China as poor citizens (and mind you I mean very poor, literally homeless or live at the bottom of the lower class), the government may risk upraising.  Unfortunately it is poorly implemented and has its own problems. There are still some Chinese who hold the gender culture, especially those who live in the rurals. Chinese who live in the more urban populated areas tend not to have any preferences, or isn't nearly as biased for male babies. Education is probably the best way to solve the issue at hand, but education takes time to kick into gear, so the one child policy is a remedy for the time being. "

Sweepy Shepard is a Renegade, so he picked "For". He makes the tough decisions that nobody else has the balls to make. Just like that time in that videogame. 

7 billion people in the world right now,i wonder how many there will be in 50 years...
I am for it,but bump it up to 2 children max, sucks being an only child :D

Well at the rate of population we have now, we either start the space colonization fast or start killing, so until those cosmonaughts start some fancy city on mars, we gotta go with the killing, its a shame, but unless we do we'll all end up like Africa sooner or later.

" I do understand the reasons behind it. But unfortunately it lead up to that most families wanted a son for some reason, and therefore a lot of girls were thrown out on the streets. "

Also the lamen's idea of how inhabited the planet is is greatly exxagerated. We have plenty of space left, and we have the capacity to make unliveable spaces liveable. Canada, for example, is quite a bit larger than the US, but has about 10% the population. Then you've got deserts and such, modern supercities sustain populations on par with entire rural states. All we have to do is use the space we have more efficiently. Going to mars and such, that's just the lamen nerd fantasy and its logistically 1000% harder than just working with the planet. 1st world countries have population plateaus. You don't need to spit out 12 kids and hope 3 of them live past 12 in a first world country. When more places reach that state, the population will naturally plateau.