Population Policy (Birth Control) Causes and Effects

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POPULATION CONTROL POLICIES
Eager, P. W. (2004). Global population policy: From population control to reproductive rights. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate.
The book print is very appropriate for the research because of its detailed and comprehensive information. It was easily accessible through googling as well as in database, which provides clear information regarding the author too. Eager, was one and associate Professor of Political Science, Chair of the Department and she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. She has a great reputation in her experiences of teaching and as an author due to her un-ending passion of research that provides accuracy to information she writes. This shows great expertise as she refers to the source of information and has ensured to indicate her contacts for accessibility purposes. Ashgate Publishing Company is the publisher of this book, meaning its traditional publishing, where it affirms Eager as the author of this book. The study is meant to explain why the population control fails to be the center of global population policy as well as the reason health and reproductive rights has turned into the major focus. The book is aimed at a wider range of audience including those in the field of international relations, development politics and women’s studies. The information given if based on factual evidence with back up from sources, presenting religious, political and cultural aspects. The source was published on the first day of January year two thousand and four and is still relevant to development of other studies that involve global population policy. The book has been reviewed by several scholars and thus approved and is consistent with the other references on the existing topic. The author has used reputable sources through which she obtained information, using one of the most appropriate primary sources like conducting surveys.
Zorea, Aharon W. Birth Control. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood, 2012. Print
The print, which is best, suited for this study and authored by a renowned Professor and Ph.D. holder in Health and Medical Issues, was published by ABC-CLIO, a traditional publisher, has been one of the most beneficial articles for college students’ reference. The author’s experiences and education reputation has won him popularity especially in the medical field and thus crediting this research. The book that was published in the year two thousand and twelve is accessible via googling and examines the origins as well as the controversies linked with the birth control in the United States of America and thus enabling to follow the direction even in the other parts of the world. The source explains about the issues concerning access to education regarding, and birth control practice have contributed a great deal in social, religious as well as political debates about the topics as differed as rights of women, federal healthcare funding, physical liability, among others. Zorea has used great expertise in his research as he has applied medical experiments to come up with accurate results. He has also outsourced some information and credited the authors through references. The medical terms used indicate expertise in that field and the elaborate explanation, and has been approved by several scholars. Zorea has also used primary sources like conducting his own experiments and survey that includes interviews and the secondary sources have been extracted from the other scholars.
Scharping, Thomas. Birth control in China, 1949-2000. Oxford: Routledge, 2003.
The book is a print that provides significant information about the history of China and birth control process. The authors are reputable in their work as they have been approved and reserved the right of owning the book, and have authored other popular books. The book is accessible via google and was published in the year two thousand and three by RoutledgeCurzon, making it a traditional publishing and portraying the efficiency of the work since the company is reputable. Moreover, it presents a comprehensive volume that analyses the birth policies of Chinese as well as their population developments since the People’s Republic was founded to the year two thousand census. Furthermore, the major emphasis lies on China’s “Hardship Number One under Heaven” which brought about controversies regarding one-child campaign and the clash between government policies and family strategies. The study is still relevant and helpful to students in their research about birth control, not only in China but also all over the world and predicts the possible causes and effects. The author has used both primary and secondary sources. The primary came from surveys and personal knowledge, while the works cited from other scholars evidence the secondary sources. The research is based on facts that author has extracted from won research mostly, as well as other renowned scholars.
Thesis Statement
While birth control is a positive step by China towards securing the future of the country, it has also been spotted with a lot of controversy, with respect to its efficiency and impacts to the citizens
Introduction
Population control is the exercise of performing artificial alteration to the growth rate of human population. Yet, population increase should be considered a positive occurrence to the human race since it presents more labor, diversity as well as assurance of the future generation. There has been however, a great challenge in cases of over population, which has led to overexploitation and scarcity of resources (Eager, 12). These challenges among others presented the need to establish some policies that would ensure that population are put under control. One of these measures or policies that have emerged effective in some places like China is birth control. Birth control has presented great controversies regarding its effectiveness and the impacts it has on people that are directly or indirectly affected.
Causes of population control policy
The main reason for practicing the population control policies is the magnitude of the problem associated with overpopulation. In consideration of this, China can be put on the limelight, being the highest populated country in the world. China has encompassed a rate of twenty-one percent of the world’s population and thus encounters serious economic and social difficulties that are accompanied by overpopulation. Therefore, this shows that population is likely to bring about the degradation of resources and land, pollution as well as detrimental conditions. This has led to attempts by the Chinese government as well as the others from various countries look for solutions that would put the population at a controllable rate. One of the main policies that has been successful in China was birth control policy (Pearl, Judea, 20). The government used various tactics of implementing this policy, the first try being the authorization by the government to attain a birth certificate before giving birth, and receiving some benefits if the parents agree to give birth to one child. The “one child per family policy” seemed quite oppressive because the citizens who would not comply and would proceed more than one child would be taxed around fifty percent of the income or they would receive punishment of losing their jobs or denial of other benefits. In addition, the pregnancies that lacked proper authorization and plan would be terminated (May, 20). This policy continued to each regions and the leaders were placed to be the monitors to ensure a set target was reached, failure to which the leaders would be punished.
After the policy of bearing one child per family in China, the government progressed to introduce other methods to restrict further population increase like the birth control programs. The case of sterilization became active in the early eighties and these were performed on parents who had two children, and it exceeded to conduct tubal ligations, abortions as well as vasectomies, amounting to a percentage of thirty-five of the entire methods of the birth rate control (Fairbank, John, Goldman &Merle, 15). This also altered the economy from the usual primarily based on agriculture to that of industry. This was usable to the advantage of the government to show reason that population growth is likely to deter economic growth.
Negative effects of birth control policy
Birth control policy has been implemented for a very long time and is currently on the lead in controlling population. This has been done in order to limit the population birth rate, a mandate offered by the government and being taken undertaken as a reply to factors that include high or increasing heights of poverty, religious reasons, environmental concerns as well as overpopulation measures. Regardless of the purpose of this method or policy of population control to the women, some people and programs have termed it as exploitation. numerous people still have grave moral objections to the policy of birth control like the use of contraceptives so that population may be controlled. Some people state that the motive behind this act is solely based on the specific parties that wish to cover their tendency of overconsumption (Gamer & Robert, 14). They further state that if the rich countries would cease consuming too much and just be contented with their fair share of resources, there would not be any requirement of controlling population that is applied unfairly in the poor countries. The movement of population control was active all through the year nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, which drove numerous family planning and reproductive health programs. Around the year nineteen eighty, there was great tension between women’s hea...