The "one- child policy" is a government family-planning policy, in place since 1980, the purpose of this is to limit the number of children born to chinese families. The goal of this law is to control one possible explotion in the number of the population. This law was forcefully by the National People's Congress, at the same time was revised and fixed the age of marriage for men now is 22 and for women now is 20.
The family-planning policy, know as the "one-child policy" limit urban families to have only one child and the families in a rural area to a maximum of two children. According with the Chinese's government, the policy has effectively curbed the rapidly growing population because this law was implemented the china's population don't grown in 30 million people from 1980 to 2001, this 30 million people are more than the US population.
MLA Citation
Luo, Jing. "China's One-Child Policy." Daily Life through History. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 13 Dec. 2011.
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