if you have more than one child you pay a fine and if you a minortiy you can have more than one but otherwise it hasn't been.

sometimes it did. but other times, people were caught because they had broken it and had more children. :)

It is due to the one child policy, so there are less young people coming into the world than there was 50 years ago, it will clear itself up in time though.

Most families are only allowed to have a single child; there aer a few exceptions, however. Rural families can have a second child if the first's a girl or disabled, and foreigners or ethnic minorities are completely free from the policy.

Officials claim that yes it has worked and it has prevented between 250-400 million births.

Whilst this may be so, the policy has been critisised by many who claim that, among other things, there have been forced abortions, abandonment of female children due to the traditional preference towards males and that it will cause long term economic problems due to a disproportionate ageing population (ie not enough younger people working to support the older generations).

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the one child policy is controversial bcause there is alot of so many people can have more than 1 child just try not to let the government know about it they have another sectretly

It is something that is enforced by the government and most feel that the govenment has no right to control how many children you should have. For example, in China, if the government found out that you were having another child be it your boss contacting the gov't or a neighbor, you could be pulled out of your home and taken into custody and given a forced abortion. There is a great documentary that just came out specifically about this subject from either the discovery channel or national geographic. It's worth checking out.

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the consequences were that people were punished and they were not able to have health plans or help from the government and people that obeyed the one child policy were given higher pay and were praised but also got government help

Primarily Buddhism, also Daoism and Confucianism (though these are more general cultural practices and less institutional/spiritual). The main religions are Buddhism and Christianity. The Christians in China are persecuted and meet in houses instead of church buildings, but there are an estimated 60 to 70 million Christians in China.

Short answer: Overpopulation. China has over one billion people. And although China is roughly the size of the United States, it so happens that China has a huge mountain range covering most of the country. Which means that China has very few areas where there is good soil to grow crops. If the population if China continues to grow at the rate it once did, people will starve because the land cannot produce enough food to support demand. The government also found out they were running out of water too.

the policy was introduce because there where too many people being born and the country could not handle that many people. when china had a famine in 1970 they realized they had too many people and they needed to prepare themselves if it happened again.

The Advantages to the One Child Policy are:• The growth of the population decreases. If China had not had the policy, from 1979-2011 they would have had an extra 2.4 billion population.

• There are incentives for the one child families. They are given free health check ups, their child is given the best education (top schools) and women's get an extra three months maternity leave.

The disadvantages are:• They won't have any siblings. So they usually get spoilt being called 'the little emperors.'

• The thing "Cousin" would never exist in China. For siblings don't exist therefore there are no such thing "Cousins: in China.

For some people, they have had smaller families, and they know less about what it is like to have a sibling, aunts and uncles, and cousins. There could be some families that wanted a son to carry on the family name, but only had a daughter, and some families that may have wanted a daughter but had a son.

For families outside China, perhaps some appreciate more their freedom to have a larger family.

It has not ended and has not been scheduled to do so.

Yes! Especially when dealing with a culture where the family name is so important, it would make sense that they would want a boy who could continue carrying that name. This resulted in girls being unwanted or even killed.

yes there was some positive efectcs one of them was that there was a significant amount of resources to go round and that it made the population level up .

advantages and disadvantages of increasing population

1.4 billion

In October, 2009, the population of China is estimated at 1,319,175,330 (1.3 billion).

there are good and bad benefits. Mainly the bad are they won't be be as social intune with the children of their age, it's very diffucult to socialize ( usually can talk to other adults fine thou) And, a big one, they will fight with the parents a lot more rather than a brother or sister. But wait, there are still good things yet, your child will be around adults more and will know how to socialize on a personal level better, obvoisly, it would be cheaper. And your child will have a better understanding of live in general. I would know this because I'm a only child in process of becoming an adult. My recomendation to you, see were you are financial first to see if you are finacially structured to do this and if you are, then I recomend having two, an odd number in the house just makes things worst in my opinion. Have fun and to the best of luck to you and your future family

China's one child policy is that an Han Chinese person is only allowed to have one child without being fine a large fee. Beyond that, the Chinese also view it as a large financial burden to raise more than one child. This policy only applies to Han Chinese and other Chinese minorities, such as Uyghur/Xingjiang provience minorties this rule does not apply to them.

Here's the wiki explanation of the one child policy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy