One child policy in China and its consequences

The objective of this bachelor thesis is to inform about development and the present form of the one child policy in China and about its consequences and to evaluate the potential of this policy in the future. It describes former forms of population policies and the circumstances and the reasons for the introduction of the policy. It identifies the targets of the one child policy, its program, the measures and the ways to exact the policy. Special attention is given to the results and the consequences of the one child policy. It examines the influence of the policy on the course of the national growth rate, the birth rate and the fertility rate and it mentions several positive consequences of the policy. It deals minutely with the problems that the policy caused or at least worsened - the ageing problem, the enlargement of the ratio between men and women, the discrimination, the differences between urban and rural areas, breaking of human rights and the problem with "little emperors". At the end it evaluates the potential of the policy for the future. It states that it is possible and covetable to cancel or at least lighten the one child policy. Although the Chinese government reject this step it is probable that growing ageing problems caused the adjustments or cancelling of the policy