[entity345]

The one-child policy saved China and the world. China might have hit 2 billions by now without it.

The issue is that is has been too effective, especially for the level of development of the country, so that China is hitting a "first world problem" before having first world resources.

[benjaminl]

Read the article. It includes a graph that show that fertility was already drastically dropping before one-child was introduced.

[gdpgreg]

Hans Rosling did a lot of work on communicating birthrate in the developing world and how in general they trend towards the replacement rate ted talk where he goes over it:https://vimeo.com/79878808

[Fjolsvith]

And, continues to drop:

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/629361870/despite-the-end-of-...

[entity345]

China is bad. Have I got the gospel right?

Now, the _facts_ are that the policy did have a real, significant impact. And that has benefited mankind as a whole.

But, OK, let's say it was useless... I cannot be said to have been disastrous, then, can it?

[lurquer]

"Saved" China and the world from what?

What problem could justify such an abhorrent intrusion into a person's life?

[entity345]

World population:

1980 - 4.4 billion

2019 - 7.7 billion

This has a massive impact on our environmental footprint and on climate change.

But, right, let's not intrude into a person's life, that would be abhorrent...

[lurquer]

Should a government have the power to dictate how many children we have? That does not seem abhorrent to you?

Strange days when one is downvoted for criticizing China's immoral and brutal policy that violated the most basic of human rights.

[forkLding]

The One-Child policy isn't a hard policy wherein you are punished physically or imprisoned for having more than one child, it's a fine, albeit quite heavy, hence why the average number of children in China in 2016 is 1.62 which exceeds 1 child per family because half of Chinese parents had around 2 children during the One-Child Policy.

The reason why you're being downvoted is because the One-Child policy is actually quite popular in China. A Pew Global survey in 2008 found 76% of Chinese approve of the One-Child Policy (Scroll to Additional Findings section in link cited).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

http://www.pewglobal.org/2008/07/22/the-chinese-celebrate-th...

[gus_massa]

> The One-Child policy isn't a hard policy wherein you are punished physically or imprisoned for having more than one child, it's a fine, [...]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Mandatory_con...

> As part of the policy, women were required to have a contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD) surgically installed after having a first child, and to be sterilized by tubal ligation after having a second child. From 1980 to 2014, 324 million Chinese women were fitted with IUDs in this way and 108 million were sterilized. Women who refused these procedures – which many resented – could lose their government employment and their children could lose access to education or health services. The IUDs installed in this way were modified such that they could not be removed manually, but only through surgery.

[lurquer]

Thanks for the response.

It would certainly be sloppy logic to merge the statistical information with the poll data. Nevertheless, doing so reveals something not very surprising and illustrative of human nature: you can always find a majority in favor of imposing a draconian restriction on "everyone else." :)

[entity345]

Are doing ignoring what I wrote on purpose?

The issue is personal rights vs. general good.

In the end an individual's liberty ends when his actions are having a serious negative impact on the community.