Reflection on China's one-child policy
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In this week's CID lesson , we learnt about China's one-child policy. It is basically a policy that states that parents can only give birth to one child as there are too many children born in China every year.
This may be beneficial to the country and parents but not to the children. China may feel that overpopulation may lead to having not enough resources and space .Parents might feel that the one-child policy is better as they do not have to spend so much money in bringing their child up , thus reducing their financial stress . However, the child might think otherwise. In my opinion, its pretty tragic that the child has no siblings , nobody to share their weal and woe and most importantly , nobody around their age who can understand them and confide into. Furthermore, they have a very huge burden; supporting their parents or grandparents when they grow old and cannot work anymore. For example, a boy has two parents and four grandparents. This means that when the boy grows up, he has to support SIX people( lets say all of them all still living)! This is very stressful and tiresome for the boy as their aren't many people to share his burden. This does not include his own family yet.
However, it is a completely opposite situation here in Singapore. The birth rate
here is very low and the government is encouraging more couples to give birth to babies. It is actually not suprising that couples do not wish to give birth to babies or some singles may not even wish to get married as the the cost of living in Singapore is very high. Due to Singapore's growing economy , prices of food, transport and even daily necessities increase . Thus , many couples are not willing to spend that time or money in raising their children .As the government has already introduced schemes to encourage couples to have babies like the Baby Bonus scheme,I think the situation has been improving too.
Thus, we can conclude that a population of a country largely depends on the environment and the living conditions of the country.
This may be beneficial to the country and parents but not to the children. China may feel that overpopulation may lead to having not enough resources and space .Parents might feel that the one-child policy is better as they do not have to spend so much money in bringing their child up , thus reducing their financial stress . However, the child might think otherwise. In my opinion, its pretty tragic that the child has no siblings , nobody to share their weal and woe and most importantly , nobody around their age who can understand them and confide into. Furthermore, they have a very huge burden; supporting their parents or grandparents when they grow old and cannot work anymore. For example, a boy has two parents and four grandparents. This means that when the boy grows up, he has to support SIX people( lets say all of them all still living)! This is very stressful and tiresome for the boy as their aren't many people to share his burden. This does not include his own family yet.
However, it is a completely opposite situation here in Singapore. The birth rate
here is very low and the government is encouraging more couples to give birth to babies. It is actually not suprising that couples do not wish to give birth to babies or some singles may not even wish to get married as the the cost of living in Singapore is very high. Due to Singapore's growing economy , prices of food, transport and even daily necessities increase . Thus , many couples are not willing to spend that time or money in raising their children .As the government has already introduced schemes to encourage couples to have babies like the Baby Bonus scheme,I think the situation has been improving too.
Thus, we can conclude that a population of a country largely depends on the environment and the living conditions of the country.
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