Why Would Anyone Want To Do This?

There are many benefits to obeying the one-child policy. The most important is the "One-Child Certificate." This grants the parents many benefits including:

Income bonuses

Better health care benefits

Better retirement pensions

Priority in housing

The mother is also granted a longer maternity leave. The child recieves preference for daycare, and they are well off for the future since they also get priority for jobs in the future. In exchange for the certificate and benefits, the couple pledges to never have anymore children.

In the 1980's, less than one-fifth of the married couples had signed the certificate.

So What if I Still Don't Want To?

If you choose to disobey the one-child policy, there are serious consequences. Those with more than one child must pay a special tax, ten percent of their earnings. In urban areas, there is also the chance of a fine, ranging from twenty to fifty percent of the family's income. This usually seriously endangers the family's chance of survival on a regular basis. So, if you still don't want to, be glad that the United States does not enforce this policy.

Reasons to follow the policy.

Measures that people are taking to comply with the policy.

Involvement of the Chinese government in enforcing the policy.

Aborting of babies to meet the demands of the policy.

Basic guidelines of the policy.