Conclusion
The policy should have some amendments according to today's situation
Over the years of one-child policy, a new and progressive economic environment has been achieved. However, behind this planned economy change, consequences have been already immersed deeply. The negative and deep-rooted impacts are seen and experienced by both single-child parents and “the only child”. Under the government’s birth control program under coercion, the population growth rate in China has already declined to a level which ambitious policymakers would have had envisioned three decades ago.
Most researches supported that there is a strong and persistent preference to have two children among the Chinese population. Having more than one child in a family can be served as an emotional or spiritual purpose, and mainly, the source of labor and lifelong support in the future. But in reality, the government’s one-child policy has failed to alter core convictions on the ideal number of children for a family. “The only child” can no longer to afford the cost not only financially in 4-2-1 family structure, but also emotionally and spiritually coping with the huge burden behind. This undoubtedly leads to aspiring young Chinese nowadays to direct their energy away from marriage and childbearing. By 2015, at that time, the demographic of China (Feng, 2005) will encounter a new hardship. Driven by the one-child policy, the ageing problem in China will be more prominent due to the declined of fertility rate in 1990s.
The government’s one-child policy is in fact dampened the reproductive desire, as “the only child” cannot further support the cost economically and emotionally to the extra child rather its original 4-2-1 family structure. In the long term, China will face on not just the severe social problems but at the same time, the ageing problems. If China is not going to make any change on the one-child policy, the time after 2025, the population will start to shrink and most of the reductions are based on the China’s urban area. Notwithstanding the benefits derived from the policy, the costs associated with it are seriously emerging. If properly altered, this allows the increase of favorable consensus among most of the couples of having two children. Instead, this helps with the demographic crisis by reaching the fertility desires of couples in China. And last but not the least, relieving the governmental burden on the pension system for the significant increase of ageing population. Changes towards the policy should have done before it is too late.
Most researches supported that there is a strong and persistent preference to have two children among the Chinese population. Having more than one child in a family can be served as an emotional or spiritual purpose, and mainly, the source of labor and lifelong support in the future. But in reality, the government’s one-child policy has failed to alter core convictions on the ideal number of children for a family. “The only child” can no longer to afford the cost not only financially in 4-2-1 family structure, but also emotionally and spiritually coping with the huge burden behind. This undoubtedly leads to aspiring young Chinese nowadays to direct their energy away from marriage and childbearing. By 2015, at that time, the demographic of China (Feng, 2005) will encounter a new hardship. Driven by the one-child policy, the ageing problem in China will be more prominent due to the declined of fertility rate in 1990s.
The government’s one-child policy is in fact dampened the reproductive desire, as “the only child” cannot further support the cost economically and emotionally to the extra child rather its original 4-2-1 family structure. In the long term, China will face on not just the severe social problems but at the same time, the ageing problems. If China is not going to make any change on the one-child policy, the time after 2025, the population will start to shrink and most of the reductions are based on the China’s urban area. Notwithstanding the benefits derived from the policy, the costs associated with it are seriously emerging. If properly altered, this allows the increase of favorable consensus among most of the couples of having two children. Instead, this helps with the demographic crisis by reaching the fertility desires of couples in China. And last but not the least, relieving the governmental burden on the pension system for the significant increase of ageing population. Changes towards the policy should have done before it is too late.