One child or more.......What do you think about shaping a comprehensive population policy in a society?

10/31/2015

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Population policy can be defined as a set of social policies which consists of the principles or objectives of ensuring the balance or growth of population in a society. Demographic analysis on these variables are always conducted and regarded as the prime elements of shaping other polices in the areas of immigration/ migration, spending on infrastructure, health care, technological development...etc. :

Fertility / mortality rates
Ageing
Expectation of life
Gross reproduction rate
Labor force participation rate

Anthony

11/2/2015 03:32:13 pm

I know most countries don't have forced population control policies. They will more likely control their borders, setting up quotas for immigrations or refugees. From what I have known so far China and Indian do have some kind of actual sterilisation or birth contraction policies. But most of the time, the laws/ polices could be distorted once they are passed down to the villages and local regions. Those who are wealthy enough would just look for the loopholes and have 1 or 2 more.

Jesse

11/2/2015 05:32:37 pm

There are some extreme people always saying that the issues of global overpopulation is because of uncontrolled child births in those poor and third world countries. I am not totally agree what they say. An English economist or scholar,I think the name is Malthus, his work shows that once the global population reaches at a specific point, our world will be suffering famine and disease....
I think the numbers from his work are part of the classical example of pseudoscience. The contradictory thing for him is that he got 3 kids.

Henry

11/4/2015 01:57:31 am

All I really know about population policy is China dated back to a few decades ago. Some countries might call it with a different name, family planning.
I heard of China used to strictly control the number of kids in families, families living in cities or urban areas could only have a child but those are from rural areas or farmlands might have more than 1.
One-child policy intends to bring down the national population, 1.3 billion people, that's a lot.

Adrina

11/4/2015 10:19:50 pm

From what I know of the reason of making population policy is to make sure there would be enough people to work. It just directly links to having enough people to be taxed. So knowing the population means knowing better about the revenue and budget to the government.

Margge

11/6/2015 04:37:58 pm

I heard about the One-Child policy has brought lots of side effects ranged from personal development level to the overall balance of genders. I know a few of classmates moved from there and have been getting used to get a hold of different things.
I think that they might do things different from most of us, because imagine they are grown and raised in a closed society. But some might have access to western media, it doesn't help much to let them to be more exposed to the world.

Sherena

11/6/2015 08:29:47 pm

If we see and judge others from our point of view, there are tons of things we would think they are alien to ours. I personally doubt that One-Child Policy whatsoever could be seen as a humane policy for the people at all. Forbidding women's rights of giving birth no mater how has been derogatory to women. It has also raised other problems like forced abortion, child abandonment, and human trafficking.
Once there are majority of people from some cultures having the gender bias, that's been deep-rooted for generations. Just like in Indian the ways of treating females are shockingly horrendous.
So a more comprehensive population policy should also take care of the cultural part too.

Eddy

11/8/2015 05:10:33 am

All I know about an "ideal" shape of population growth should be something like a bulge, inverse U shaped curve. The majority of people are between 20-50 years old, and the rest are the under 18 and over 65 or 70 years old. That's how a society might keep a healthy & productive labor force.
I think most other countries are facing the same issue, how they could keep that labor force to be more substantial & long-lasting. Because the group of 65 plus's getting larger. We're heading to delay retirement, or maybe there wouldn't be a clear cut of that by that time.

Stevve

11/8/2015 11:45:52 am

Well we have to know that's a big number of population, they wouldn't have other options to bring down the population except for enforcing strict laws. One thing I think that's a black mark of the policy is - forced abortion.
I know the population issue in China is sophistically complicate, it could be caused by many other factors, social and cultural ones like gender preference on boy over girl. But right now the number has been dropped. They're now having other problem is to get enough young people for supporting the economy.

Chantal

11/9/2015 07:27:00 am

I remember what my previous social teacher was talking about population in Canada, there are only two ways at this point increasing the younger populations: having immigrants and boosting up the fertility rate. I know that sounds like mediocre.
In my opinion if we look around ourselves and easily find most young couples tend to have 2 kids. But would this be covering the number of aging population, it mightn't once raising 2 kids or more now is definitely hard.

Calvin

11/9/2015 05:58:09 pm

I want to talk about the child's personal development. I'd like to say child grown up with siblings seems more temperate, for example it trains how the child cope with other family members. Lone child more likely has those single-kid syndromes like being self-centered on every single thing. So a comprehensive population policy should take that as well as child care and psychological health support into account. This might help most kids have a all-around personality. But let's be honest, most governments can't think of that, unfortunately.

Michael

11/10/2015 03:11:04 pm

I think we may not need the number of people in the workforce as it was in the past years. Even though robotic technology wouldn't substitute most people in the labor force in a short while, it will certainly and gradually replace a number of task processes and jobs. So I don't completely agree to the argument that we got to have the same number of newborns for replacing the future labor force. I do agree with some of you was saying to have enough support for child's health development is rather important.

Dan

11/11/2015 11:14:57 am

I had a social studies class before; the teacher and the class were talking something about food scarcity or some kind of world population crisis, just couldn't remember exactly. The teacher told us that we aren't having a food problem but food production's manipulation. Supposedly once we are having advanced technology, the level of food growth should also be increased, even the number of agricultural participators is decreasing. So we have rather been having resource scarcity, human's greed has always been the real cause of problems. Just think of the oil price crisis.
I don't think most modern families right now want to have 2+ kids any more. They need to think about all the costs.

Nel

11/12/2015 07:54:26 am

People have been living longer than their grand parent generation.
Again we by no means are healthier than them.
I assume a good population policy should include the proportions of genders, age groups, size of family, and health status..something like that. Then government could plan the health care budget ahead, rather than flush lots of money into the sink at most of the time in many developed societies.

Jonna

11/13/2015 05:30:55 am

Don't know if everyone has read the latest news about climate change could raise the number of poor people. It's expected to me but the shocking fact is most governments haven't even known the problem of climate change, so don't bother to look for solutions. Now, the question for us is whether we're having enough people, I think we do and need to stress more on their quality of life. Somehow I think Michael did make a point of showing how technology has gradually and silently replaced certain jobs.
So governments should work on support for the young generations under some kind of population policy

Greg

11/13/2015 06:10:07 pm

I heard Malthus' theory on population and resource distribution from my social teacher. Right now our global population has been going up which might or even has eventually overloaded our Earth. But it doesn't mean we should exclude certain types of people, things like that. Otherwise it's just no difference than natural selection, a certain type of people are rather more superior to other kinds.
I totally with some of you saying that our governments should do more on giving supports on child and youth development, and rearrange senior benefits, as far as I know some seniors don't need the resources from government. I mean we could use their shares and give them to someone who is absolutely in need.

Louis

11/16/2015 06:22:52 pm

In many poor/ developing countries the majority of populations were working in agriculture decades ago. But now lands are mostly either urbanized or dehydrated for industrial uses. The problems we are having now are caused by labor displacement and shrinking global economy. I think the whole idea of having more births would replace the aging workforce in some way has been In many poor/ developing countries the majority of populations were working in agriculture decades ago. But now lands are mostly either urbanized or dehydrated for industrial uses. The problems we are having now are caused by labor displacement and shrinking global economy. I think the whole idea of having more births would replace the aging workforce in some way has been cajoling us.

Collin

11/17/2015 09:50:49 am

Be frank people living in those populated countries aren't always being humanly treated well. From what I know about those places their population policy is only referred to birth control, or family planning. But most of the time the laws are regulated on a double-standard basis.
Those from the developed socialites would always perpetuate the notion of having the national population under control might increase economic growth. Now the question we are having is how could we support the aging population? To go farther would be are we really improving the quality of life? If it isn't why do we need more births then?

Fred

11/21/2015 04:51:44 pm

In the previous years when people were still thinking about industrial and agricultural labor sources are the steam-engine of global economy, getting fresh labor population was the key the economic growth. Now, I certainly doubt it would still the the case, many labor procedures have already been swiftly replaced by robotic technology. I think our population policy should focus more on the soft sides like human development, living quality and forth.

Harry

11/23/2015 01:26:04 pm

I think a number of people doesn't know the most basic principle - we should need quality of people but not quantity at all. If we look at those populated countries , many people are badly treated. Gender biases for example are still perpetually existed. This has made lots of family tragedies. I think our governments got to stick with giving supports for human development.

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