Two-Child Policy in China

I do not think it is applicable to the real world as people are now decreasing as a whole, despite the fact that underdeveloped countries have a load of babies, because developed countries have barely any and are decreasing in number(not the US because of new hispanics). The greatest losses are happening in Japan where people focus on work instead of family and have a silent racism against foreigners. Do not find this offensive since I have sources from science programs and magazines, but do to the fact that I lost internet last time after I pressed the post response button, I lost my detailed 4 paragraph arguement and elaboration and am forced to respond without much detail as I cannot copy/paste.

One of my friends told me, even though there is a law for people to follow, but many family still have more then two kids without breaking the law. They have their way ...

I personally agree with this policy. We are 7 billion people on this earth, and many people are starving and live in miserable conditions, many people die due to the lack of food and water. Natural esources are not limitless and so it is not acceptable to believe in a perpetuous exponential growth of the number of people on this planet. We are facing the limits of our environment, we either find a way to live in balance with it with a sustainable population, or in the midterm that balance will be imposed to us (as famine, drought, soil erosion, pollution, etc). If the resources are limited it is better to live knowing that fact and avoid believing in a limitless growth that will only lead to massive pain for many people. A two child policy with taxation as a disincentive for birth rate is a good policy imho.

I agree for that. In fact, they should make that regulation 10 years ago. We should think ahead when it comes to having babies. We must consider environment around us first than our personal feelings. The thing is this world won't never be ready to have that much of human population as long as we don't care to each other and the powerful ones still try their best to dominate others and don't give a fair chance and keep creating wealth circles around them.

That is selfish, they might have been born in a 3 person family, everyone acts the same. He's wrong, but maybe you would slightly agree if you where there first, then you would say it's ok. (e.g We have different thoughts)

i completely agree with that, and see no problem i wish the US had that law there are to many people in the world, why would anyone want more than two anyway...plus i think there should be like a license to have children need a license to drive need a license to have kids now some may think that doesn't make sense children and cars are different, but they are not, cars you have to take care of for them to run longer, oil changes new battery etc. children are the same only cost way more to have and exist. feeding schooling houseing etc. AND just like if there is an irresponsible person behind the wheel of a car can run off the road and kill a few people, so can a child if it raised the wrong way it can run off the road of life and kill a few people...but anyway yea china has the right idea.

It seems as if this has been a law for a long time. I think I remember hearing that some families would give up their daughters for adoption because of the limit. Since they could only have 2 children, they wanted them both to be sons so that they could not only help work, but also carry on the family name. It is definitely a very strict government. I won't say that I would agree that it is right, but there does need to be something done in places around the entire world so that less people are living in poverty. I am just not sure that this is the correct answer. It would be better if people would make the decisions on their own, rather than the government having to tell them what they should do.

Hi uniqueorn, it is to my understnading that China has a one child policy only. unless they have recenlty changed it I am not aware. I aggres with you that that this is worng. that a family has the right to chose its onwn size. the plolicy in the PRC is to restrictive and violiates fundmentlal human rights. if a couple wants to have less than two children or no children at all, that should be there choice.

Yes i agree. It's not bad i think. Well i stay in china. I heard some of my Chinese friend that if you want you can take more. But some things you have to do for this. There is some policy for that. Well i also heard if your first child is boy then you can't take any baby but if girl then you.

Two is of course better than one. I think the same country had a one-child policy years back and to have this two-child policy is an improvement. Yes, a country has to limit its population if it has to grow, but this limitation should not lead to the race's extinction. So a two-child policy would be good. It is different in our country because "sky is the limit" when it comes to having children. LOL

That is so true, my chinese friend told about it and everybody supported the idea. i love the idea and it is a good way to help the people and the country. look at them they're booming. :-) in Thailand, though there is no governning policy stating that. most families have one or two kids only. One example, my boss got only one child (a son)- he graduated last year, after his graduation, my boss bought him a new car, a condominium unit in Bangkok and a house in the province. plus a bank account -(savings for his son from childhood). This is a common practice for most families.

I had heard of this before, but I was under the impression it was limited to one child. And at that, I kind of always thought that I had misunderstood. But after reading some of the comments already made, it makes complete sense. I had always wondered, if it was true, what did they do if there were more children than the "limit"? I had not ever thought about additional taxes. I personally think this is an outstanding idea. Much better than what seems to happen in America. We get tax credits for having children, and instead of limiting the impoverished lower class to X amount of children, the government makes it so many of them keep having kid after kid in order to collect welfare. What a change we could have in this country if we were allowed to have a little more control over our citizens. Freedom is a great thing, don't get me wrong, but sometimes it seems as though we are allowed too much freedom for our own good!

This is not very applicable anymore. There was an article in a scientific magazine(Scientific American possibly) which stated that countries birthrates are under the global number for what is needed(also forgot this word) and that the number of humans is balancing itself. This article is not false in anyway and if you believe it is i am merely misrepresenting it, but it stated something along the lines of this. (source: magazine article) Many very developed countries(japan has it the worst, Italy and Korea to a lesser extent) have so low of a birthrate that the number of people in the countries will hit a point where it will be very hard to ever increase for a while, and will plummet fast. These places will of course have a stablilized population once it is decreased. The major contributing factors for the asian countries are racism and putting work before family. There is no outward blunt racism because that has been destroyed almost everywhere that is very well developed. However, the Japanese government will not recognize a person as a citizen (Ever) unless they are of Japanese or Brazilian Japanese descent. Other racism is limited to Japanese people shooing away their kids when they are around foreigners or even Brazilian Japanese. (source: reputable television show appearing on the Science channel in the US) Note: I included this information not to go off topic, but to elaborate why this question is not applicable to the whole world(is still applicable to China if they are considered to underdeveloped to not increase greatly)

I'm a only-daughter in my family and my most of my friends are also only-child in their families. It's really solved the unemployment problem but it also made some problems in children development, such as many children are selfish and loved blindly by families. So I think it's really not a good method.

I don't agree with this either, and I do not agree with how girls are treated in that country. They can have two children, but one of those children better be a boy. I have heard this from a lot of people. The Chinese love boys. If a family can produce many boys, the better.

I heard that too that China going to change the one child policy to two child policy. They need to apply for it before they can have another child. I'm also wonder what if we have that policy here we are also facing overpopulation here. In our neighborhood there has a lots of children here.

Hello, I'm from the Philippines. We're having the same problem and I think worse than China: Population Explosion. The alarming fact is, China has a bigger land area than the Philippines. You can check out global map to see what I'm saying. The size of the Philippine islands I think is only 1% of China's land area. But we are multiplying like the Chinese and our government is taking this for granted! Some government officials are being scorned by the Catholic church for initiating population control, I don't understand why the Church is doing that? As of now, there is no clear solution for this problem here in our place, and the only solution is to let the population really explode and the government to export humans to other countries like exporting manufactured commodities! :D

due to extra burden of population china face a lots of problem. So everybody think about the future.basically demand is depend upon the population . if population will be increase then demand will also increase county will face a problem like food crisis.so china goverment make or update a new rule like those family that have 2 children then goverment wiil provide u some reward those who have more than 2 children then Govt will be punished that family.

i agree wrote and not just in cina alone there are programs in Indonesia where are i live now promoting a programs called "familiy planning" so every family has at least two childern to the population in a country can be properly handled. why you don't agree whit this?

this is an ancient issues for china.. well i know the reason that they are doing this to control their population.. well i guess they make up this kind of decision after thinking it all through... then i say that we should respect others law... we may think it is wrong but it is not right to judge based on rational thoughts only... they maybe cruel but being cruel for a reasonable reason is acceptable for me...