In the late 1970s, the Chinese government introduced a number of measures to reduce the country's birth rate and slow the population growth rate. The most important of the new measures was a one-child policy, which decreed that couples in China could only have one child. The birth rate in China has fallen since 1979, and the rate of population growth is now 0.7 per cent.There have been negative impacts too.Due to a traditional preference for boys, large numbers of female babies have ended up homeless or in orphanages, and in some cases killed. In 2000, it was reported that 90 per cent of the fetuses aborted in China were female.As a result, the gender balance of the Chinese population has become distorted. Today it is thought that men outnumber women by more than 60 million. This gender imbalance just shows how the Chinese are sexist people and I personally do not think that this method is the best to reduce the country's birthrate. Fortunately, China's one-child policy has been somewhat relaxed in recent years. Couples can now apply to have a second child if their first child is a girl, or if both parents are themselves only-children. Hence, I can infer that this family structure in China has a negative impact and there should be a better method to it.
-Keefe(25)
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