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This 15 page paper examines Vietnam and Indonesia, the two child only policy and issues concerning birth control. How each state embraces gender issues is discussed. Population control is the focus of this paper. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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to control the population growth, particularly in developing countries. Policy in China has been significantly criticized. Lubis (2003) writes: "Chinas one-child policy, however, has also resulted in
large-scale abortion, infanticide and abandonment of girl babies, as well as a huge gender imbalance, in which men outnumber women, among people of marriageable age." China has had
this policy for some time. It also has no plans to change it (Schultz, 2006). Government policies geared to population control do affect population growth of course, but also, trends
in other areas affect family size and overall growth in the population. There had been a remarkable transition at the advent of the industrial age. Hanagan (1995) notes that in
the newly created industrial cities, or the proletarian family, there had been an increasing concerned about education and also a demand for better housing. With declining opportunities for child labor
and falling mortality, new burdens were placed on working-class households which led many of these families to decrease in size (Hanagan, 1995). In other words, the families were not as
apt to have six or eight or ten children as they once were. There was no farm to tend. There was nothing for the children to do. Families moved to
the cities and the transition was difficult. Still, this larger change resulted in a reduced family size, despite the fact that no real policy to that effect was in place.
Over the years, as things would become more expensive and society becomes more affluent, family size is reduced. Advances in birth control, along with safe and legal abortion, had probably
played a role there too. By contrast, in less affluent areas, the availability of birth control is reduced and population increases. There is a reduced control over the
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