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<strong>NSCI</strong> <strong>362</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 3 <strong>Discussion</strong> 1<br />

China's <strong>population</strong> <strong>policies</strong><br />

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<strong>NSCI</strong> <strong>362</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 3 <strong>Discussion</strong> 1 China's <strong>population</strong> <strong>policies</strong><br />

<strong>Week</strong> 3 D1<br />

China's <strong>population</strong> <strong>policies</strong><br />

This week we discussed <strong>population</strong> growth and briefly mentioned China’s previous strategy to control <strong>population</strong>, which was to allow a couple to have<br />

only one child (with certain exceptions granted). This “one-child” policy, which began in 1978, was introduced to solve social, economic, and<br />

environmental problems in the country. China estimates this policy prevented 400 million births, with the fertility rate falling from 2.63 in 1980 to 1.61 in<br />

2009. This policy is an important but highly controversial sustainability strategy. Many agree that reproduction is a basic human right and consequently<br />

the mandatory <strong>population</strong> control policy is in direct contrast to the social goal of sustainable development, and it may produce detrimental unintended<br />

consequences that need to be remedied. In 2013 China amended this policy to allow more than one child in a family if either of the parents are only<br />

children.<br />

What are your thoughts on government controlled <strong>population</strong> growth and do you think there would ever come a point at which you would agree to<br />

<strong>population</strong> control in the US? Why or why not?

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