Population Problems in China
This law is ridiculous and ineffective due to several reasons. The very first of these reasons is the fact that no one can control how many children they are destined to have. Despite several measures at human level, nature may have other plans for the couple, which no one else, not even the government has the right to punish and penalize the couple for. Secondly, in the case that the first child that a couple has may (god forbid) turn out to be less than normal as far as his or her growth or health is concerned, and the couple wish to have another child for spiritual fulfillment and for the sake of the first child, if they are not allowed to do so due to the law being in place, it becomes difficult for the family to deal with the shortcomings of their only child. This not only disappoints the couple in their own ability to conceive a healthy child, but eventually psychologically brings the family down in their morale. Thirdly, in case of twins being born, a scenario which is out of control of both parents, the doctors, as well as the government, it makes no sense to penalize the couple for the situation by demanding them to give away one child or worse, get rid of one of the twins. Who decides which twin to get rid of Who decides to force an abortion None of these choices are ethically correct, and even if they were viable options, only and only the parent(s) should be allowed to decide the future of their family. Birthrate laws and family planning is something that the government should educate about and provide necessary facilities regarding it, not decide people fate against their wishes for them. China may have the largest population (of 1133.6 million) (Rosenberg, 2004), but that gives no one, not even the government of China, to enforce inhumane laws on its civilians. The biggest problem with Chinas population thus is that its government has taken violating the civil rights of the Chinese citizens to a whole new unacceptable extreme. It is a wonder that the United Nations and the rest of the world platform is a silent spectator to this brutality.
Another problem with regards to population that China faces is its ever increasingly disproportionate population as far as gender is concerned. Additionally, China is expected to face several other population related problems such as stress on its resources (agriculture and energy supplies), infrastructure and housing (AFE.Asia), as well as education resources, not to mention newborn sex disproportion (which China has already started witnessing) as well as population aging (2004). Population Aging can be most easily explained in layman terms as the situation where more and more newborn babies keep getting born, and the older generations do not die out. This creates population congestion, with people who lie at two extremes of the population the very young and the very old. The parents of the very young are busy earning for their off spring, and thus there is no youth as such to take the country forward.
Furthermore, the fact that eastern China houses more than ninety percent of Chinas population does not help population matters, especially when the population from eastern China wants to migrate to western China in order to pursue better living standards. These standards can be gauged from the fact that the population density in eastern China is around 236 people per sq. km, while that in western China is hardly 11 people per sq. km.