Few years back China has opted ‘Planned birth policy’ - often called as One-child Policy by western society - to deal with overpopulation, social and environmental problems. From the very beginning this policy was subject of debate inside and outside China.
The methods like forced abortion and human right abuses were adopted by local authorities to check the growing population of China. For having more than one child, punishments may include amputation of genitals and forced sterilization. Now, China’s family planning policy may have successfully limited most homes to just one child, but it has increased the pressure on the child each family has.
For almost all parents their children are their TRUE TREASURE. Who would not like to see his/her offspring attaining each and everything in their lives? The parents of single child tend to become more passive and hopeful towards their child keeping this in mind that in future their only child will make their dreams come true. This is sad but reality that every human being is an individual with own sets of thoughts, ideas, likes , dislikes, desires, hopes and dreams off course. From here the conflicts start between two generations.
Each generation, be it older or younger, wants to keep its observations, thoughts and beliefs above from the other. But this problem isn’t centered in China alone; the conflict between parents and their children is common in homes of Western and European world too. Parents face a difficult task balancing their hopes for their children with a desire to let them choose their own futures.
While, Chinese Government believes that its family planning policy, launched in 1979, has prevented 400 million births to create a new China of fewer children with better prospects of education and health care, on the other hand experts reckons it a failure in disguise.
Just like every thing has its pros and cons, this policy that is one of the prominent reason behind China’s rapid economic growth has also created a generation of youngsters who often disappoint their parents and sometimes themselves, when they fail to meet their goals.
