One-child Policy Forever No

One-child Policy Forever? No
In Nov. 9, China will loosen its decades-long one-child population policy, allowing couples to have two children if one of them is an only child, according to a key decision issued on Friday by the Communist Party of China, which make the one-child policy once again into public view. It is undeniable that it has achieved good effects. However, it brings some social problem[s]. For example, it makes aging population more serious. But as far as I am concerned, I think the government should give a pause to the implementation of one-child policy, because the policy gradually is inappropriate to modern China's situation and causes a lot of social problems like imbalance sex ratio and weak development of children character.
For one thing, the one-child policy does not conform to our country situation. The background of this policy is that: in 1979, the Chinese government embarked on an ambitious program of market reform following the economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution. At the time, China was home to a quarter of the world's people, who were occupying just 7 percent of world’s arable land. Two thirds of the population were under the age of 30 years, and the baby boomers of the 1950s and 1960s were entering their reproductive years. The government saw strict population containment as essential to economic reform and to an improvement in living standards. So the one-child family policy was introduced. But now we can see
that more than 60 years old age of the population is one tenth, 2030 w ill be a quarter. By 2050, it will be one third. Even if China's econom y can still keep current growth momentum, by that time would be diff icult to support so many old people. That is to say, the Chinese turn ol d than turn rich fast.
For another thing, the effect of the policy on the sex ratio has received much attention. [Is this an argument?]The Chinese government has acknowledged the potentially disastrous social consequences of this sex imbalance. Since the onset of the one-child policy, there has been a steady increase in the reported sex ratio, from 1.06 in 1979, to 1.11 in 1988, to 1.17 in 2001. With boys being viewed as culturally preferable, some urban people perform sex-selection abortion since they are allowed only one child, which undoubtedly accounts for a large proportion of the decline in female births. The shortage of women may have increased mental health problems and socially disruptive behavior among men and has left some men unable to marry and have a family. The scarcity of females has resulted in kidnapping and trafficking of women for marriage and increased numbers of commercial sex workers, with a potential resultant rise in human immunodeficiency virus infection and other sexually transmitted diseases. There are fears that these consequences could be a real threat to China's stability in the future.
Finally, one child policy is harmful to the development of the kid's character and personality. The first generation won't have siblings, and the second generation won't have siblings or first
cousins. Many children will be spoiled, resulting in the "little emperors". Many parents spoil their children in that they give them everything they want, and almost never ask them to do anything at home. All these make them short of basic skills in life and unpopular with the society in the future.
It’s commonly believed that everything has its price, and one-child policy is no different. There’s no denying that the policy has played an important role in China’s developmen t, but with a consideration to modern China's situation and social problems like imbalance sex ratio and weak development of children character, it’s strongly suggested that the policy should not be carried out forever.
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