China's one-child policy...Just or not?!

Today in humanities class we just had a discussion about the one child policy in China. Above is my headline for the class, ‘China’s one-child policy…Just or not?!’ I named it this, because during class we all talked about what we felt on the subject and whether it is right or wrong.

After having more time to think about it, I have decided that I truly don’t feel that it is a just law…for many reasons.

My first reason is that it goes against human rights. Don’t we all have a free will? Not deciding how many children you have isn’t free will. You are being restrained, and have no say in how you decide to live your life. That is definitely unjust.

People may say that a huge portion of the justification is because China will run out of resources. After thinking about this, I have decided that this doesn’t have to be a factor. If the world was one, and there was unity, everyone would help countries like China that would be in need.
Also, who says that whoever was born in China must live there for the rest of their lives. The world in an enormous place. Why can’t people spread their wings and live in another country, or even another continent? If this were to happen, then they wouldn’t need so many resources.

Another reason I feel the law is unjust is because it doesn’t support equality among men and women. I feel as though now we live in an era where men and women should be presented as equals. Apparently this doesn’t apply in Chinese politics!
If a family has a girl, and then another girl, they must give the second girl up.
If a family has a girl, and then a BOY, they may KEEP the BOY!!!
That is UNJUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Men are NOT superior to women.

This has caused an imbalance between the amount of men and women in China. There are 117 men to every 100 women. Officials even estimate by 2020 there will be 30 million men known as ‘bare branches’, which won’t have or find a wife to marry.
I hope that if this does happen, it will straighten their views.

I also know the effects it has on the children, because while I lived in America, my friend, Isabel, was adopted from China. Her mother had too many children, and had to give her up. Although Isabel ended up with an extremely loving and caring family, who’s to say that all children will end up like her. They could become foster children, or end up with a bad family. Isabel still always wondered what her birth-mother was like.
It is just as difficult, if not more, on the children; their countries unjust law.

Also, who’s to say that if the law is abandoned that people will immediately begin having children. I think that the reason the baby boom was so drastic was because the people were encouraged to have children. Now that they know the problem, they may only have one or two. They aren’t crazy!

If this law were abandoned, so many problems would cease. There would be no more problems with children being abandoned (girls mainly) and put for adoption.

Even if China did run out of natural resources, at least it will make the world realize that we all need to work together in order to make the world a better place. There isn’t one country on earth that is indestructible.