one-child policy
population control policy which was used by the People's Republic of China
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China's one-child policy was a government rule that limited most families to having only one child, implemented as a population control measure. The policy shaped Chinese society for decades by affecting family structures, gender ratios, and the country's demographic future.
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A propaganda painting in Guangdong promotes the idea of a nuclear family with a single child. The text reads "Planned child birth is everyone's responsibility." Birth rate in China, 1950–2021
The one-child policy (Chinese: 一孩政策 / 独生子女政策; pinyin: yī hái zhèngcè / dú shēng zǐ nǚ zhèng cè) was a controversial population planning initiative in Mainland China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child. The program had wide-ranging social, cultural, economic, and demographic effects, although the contribution of one-child restrictions to the broader program has been the subject of controversy. Its efficacy in reducing birth rates and defensibility from a human rights perspective have been subjects of controversy.