Forbidden Children: China's One-Child Policy
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The One Child Policy in China
The one child policy was introduced by the Chinese government in 1979. The communist party of china urged all its members to limit their families to a single child. To lieng jong tang, this lop sided metric would cause an alarming issue. A shrinking younger population suddenly struggling to care for and support a rapidly expanding older population. That withering, financially beleaguered work force would not be able to compete in a global economy. On a long enough time line, china's economic boom would be reversed and the nation would slide back into poverty. But no amount of propaganda in the world could change the reproductive habits of a three thousand year old society.
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