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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Child_Nation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Child_Nation is what they did with benevolence in mind. When you strip that

• yorwba 6y ago
  There was nothing benevolent about the one-child policy. It was based on the idea that high birth rates were something for poor agrarians, but that the modern industrialized nation that China would become wouldn't need all those people and should in fact prevent them from being born to avoid overpopulation. Then when early efforts to promote voluntary birth control didn't drop the birth rate far enough, they added punitive fines, forced abortions and routine sterilizations to the toolbox. The switch to the two-child policy was not due to a realization that all of that was unethical, but simply an adjustment of the target. Hence the simultaneous existence of programs promoting childbirth in regions below target, while people who have more children than planned are still punished harshly. It's all about staying on target.