On a sunny weekend afternoon on the playgrounds and crowded shopping streets of China, all is utterly normal, including a sight that would seem bizarre and mysterious anywhere else in the world. Among the children playing or walking with their parents, there is not a brother or sister to be seen. This is the simple but profound effect of China's one-child policy; the government's desperate, long-running experiment in population control and social engineering dealing with …showed first 75 words of 1207 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1207 total…overpopulation can prove to be more than severe. An answer to preventing future ecological and economical crises is to take care of the problem before it gets worse. China's way of taking care of the problem is by regulating the number of childbirths. Before the land's ecology and economy becomes weaker, the people of China must realize the problems they face today and fix them in order to create a better future for their tomorrow.