1. China’s One Child Policy DBQ and Research Paper
For the next two days you will research China’s One Child policy and then you will write a formal research paper to consider whether or not it was a good or bad idea.

2. History of the OCP Became law in 1979, fully implemented by 1981.
Initial goal: stabilize China’s population at 1.2 billion.
Under control of the State Family Planning Commission (SFPC)
Easy to enforce in China because it is a totalitarian state. Would be difficult or impossible in most other nations.
Couples who violated the OCP had to pay a heavy tax burden, pay for schooling and medical care, and were sometimes sterilized so that they couldn’t have any more children.

3. First boxes…(VICE OCP)
National Geographic “China’s Lost Girls” (short 3 mins)
Vice “Love and Rockets”
Skip to 2:05 and end at 9:00

4. Document B Was the OCP even necessary? Why or why not?
Which of these countries has an OCP?
(Look at the dates)Why are there less children being born in some areas?

6. B

7. B

8. B

9. Document C Describe Henan. Less people = Less ____?____
Explain the statement above with statistics

11. C

12. C

13. Document D Who is benefitting from the OCP and HOW?
How is this different from traditional Chinese cultural values?
What could this mean demographically for China? (hint: CBR)

15. D

16. D

17. Document E Why is gender imbalance a negative?
Rewards for following the law? Does the reward seem effective/worth it?
Punishments for breaking the law? Too harsh?

19. E

20. E

21. E

22. Document F Positive story? Negative story?
Which story is more convincing for an argument? Why?

24. F

25. F

26. F

27. Why you believe the Chinese government made this decision?
Update as of October, 2015
“China will fully implement a policy of allowing each couple to have two children as an active response to balance population development and to address current population and demographic challenges.”
-Chinese communist party officials said in a statement published by Xinhua, the official news agency.
Why you believe the Chinese government made this decision?
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