Forbidden Children: China's One-Child Policy
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Is the One Child Policy in China Worth It?
The one child policy in china has had a liberating impact on the lives of millions of women, who are better educated and more independent than ever before. Even as female children were being abandoned, killed, aborted and adopted in vast numbers, the ones who remained have been the beneficiaries of a general shift towards gender parody. Approached purely from the perspective of economic stimulation, the one child policy was a success. But for better or worse, china is a changed place in the wake of the one child Policy. It's a tragic cautionary tale of what can happen when a government attempts to interfere in the bodily eutonomy and reproductive choices of its citizens.
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