Sarah's Reflection ( 2 )

I personally feels that the 'One-child policy' law has its pro and cons. I think that having this policy it helps to control the number of babies in the country. In China, they have a huge population and not much land for them. I think this the basic reason why China wants to set this law. In addition, there is competition for job and places in better schools. With only a child, parents can spent all their money on one child for education thus the child will be better educated. With this 'One-child policy', it helps to control the population well. In order to prevent parents from giving birth more than 1, parents who give birth more than one they would have to pay quite a high sum of fine. This is a warning for parents as the fine might be not affordable for some lower income family. I think this law does not bring more advantage than disadvantage. As this law goes by, the population of China will shrink drastically. In China, 100 girl baby is to 117 boy baby. This is because the Chinese has the mindset that boys are better and they are the heirloom. This will lead to many dire consequences. Firstly, the number of boys getting unmarried will be more as there are lesser girls. Secondly, as they are the only child, parents tend to spoilt them. In chinese, there is a phrase '要风得风，要雨得雨' , parents will be giving what the children request causing them to also be dependent on their parents. Thirdly, mothers who are pregnant and the baby in the tummy is a girl, they might remove the baby as they have only a chance of giving birth and they want a boy. Next, as there is an increase in the number of boys, who are the ones to be robbing, stealing, killing, there will definitely be an increase in crime rate. 

Now, I agree the actions of China allowing parents who are the only child to give birth to 2. I think this can better control the population preventing the population to decline too much.

I think that Singapore is not facing similar problem, instead of having too much we are declining in population. Comparing with my grandmother and my mother, my grandmother gave birth to 9 children including my father but my mother only gave birth to 2, my sister and I. This is a very common in Singapore having around 2 or 3 children. As from what my parents shared with me previously, Singapore government once promoted a champaign ' Stop At 2'. This caused the population to be declining. However, now the government are encouraging parents to give birth more by providing baby bonus, SG50 baby pack... If Singapore enforce the 1 child policy, I think we would lesser population, lesser people to work leading a declining in economy.