Infanticide: China's One-Child Rule
Date Submitted: 04/10/2002 10:34:45
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 3 pages (705 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 3 pages (705 words)
China's one-child policy was established in 1979 to limit communist China's population growth. It limits couples to one child. Fines, pressures to abort a pregnancy, and even forced sterilization accompanied second or subsequent pregnancies.
It is not an all-encompassing rule because it has always been restricted to ethnic Han Chinese living in urban areas. Citizens living in rural areas and minorities are not subject to the law. However, the rule has been estimated to have reduced …
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…officials for upholding the rule and to the victims and families as a type of compensation if death happens to occur after a torture session. Land happens to be the biggest resource for the people. For if you live in a rural area, as compared to an urban area, the rule doesn't apply. They see you as needing more children to help with the farm work and you are not in an over populated area.
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