China Keeps One Child Policy

China has decided to keep their each family can have one child policy for another decade. The policy came into play in 1970 when the population of China was a rising concern. According to the article China to keep one-child policy, "Nearly 200 million Chinese will enter child-bearing age in the next 10 years, minister Minister Zhang Weiqing told the China Daily newspaper. He said abandoning the policy during this period would cause serious problems and add extra pressure on social and economic development." China's poplution is 1.3 billion people and could reach around 1.6 by 2050. The policy was designed because of the fear of not being able to feed all the people. Problems with the law are having more older citizens compared to younger and also a gender imbalance. I think this article was interesting because I never would thought that people have the power to say how many kids you can have. Even though i think it is a good idea because China's population is large and may have trouble finding resources to supply all the people.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/10/china.onechild/index.html