This article is about the debate that is currently going on in China about whether or not the one-child policy should be gotten rid of. The issue came to the forefront of the news after a man was fired for having more than one child. The story was then picked up by many publications after he wrote about it on his blog. There are different sides of the debate, but for the most part, many scholars, a long with most of the public, believe that giving birth shouldn't have to do with the government. Some scholars now believe that is it necessary to convince the Chinese to start having more children instead of convincing them to have less children because they need to raise the fertility rate.
The story that sparked the debate occurred in March when Yang Zhizhu was fired after having more than one child. The story has been analyzed a lot by many people and now they are starting to wonder if the one-child policy is the best thing for China, or if it should be repealed.
Some of the questions I have and would need to answer in order to fully understand the article are: What happens when somebody has more than one child? What are measures that both families and the government have gone to adhere by this policy? Why was this policy originally put into place?
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