Chinese+Girls,+One+Child+Policy,+and+Adoption


 * = 1955  ||= 1962 ||= 1979 ||= 2007 ||= 2025 ||
 * * Officials promoted birth control.
 * Failed because of the Great Leap Forward in 1958. || * Famine that caused 30 million deaths.
 * Officials campaign to limit population growth. || * One Child policy establised by Deng Xioping.
 * Prevent 250 millions births || * Officials were forcing women to have abortions. || * China's estimated population by 2025 is 1.5 billion people. ||

__ One Child Policy in China and adoption of Chinese girls by Americans __ By Benya Chongolnee and Elizabeth Love = = = = **__ Thesis: __** The One Child Policy in China has lasting effects on many different kinds of people.

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Summary: Sixty years ago, China's population was growing, which caused famine around the country. The One Child Policy was established by Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping to limit the population growth. The policy stated that "citizens must obtain a birth certificate before the birth of their children" (Cook, 1999). The One Child Policy affects the biological parents of the child, the adopted child, and the parents adopting the child. If the first child turned out to be a girl, they were allowed to have a second one, but not a third one. Even though the One Child policy helped pull Chinese people out of poverty, it forced mothers to take the path of abortion. If the parents didn't want an abortion, they would have to hide their kids or else they would get killed or thrown to jail. The children can not enter school, find work, or do anything that is legal. There are estimate 6 million undocumented children in China (Hays, 2012), which mean that they were born and raised in secret and never registered with the government. Since the children are basically illegal in China, parents put them in an adoption center. Americans would adopt Chinese children and raise them in America to have a brighter future. It gives Americans more responsibility since the kids are not actually their biological children. Since 1979, One Child Policy effects people around the world. There are some positives and negative sides to the policy. By taking action, lives in China could be saved.

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