INTERWOVEN FACTORS AFFECTING WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE ROLE: under China's one-child only policy
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Since the start of China’s one-child only policy in 1979, women’s bodies have been the site of a battleground between national motives, patriarchal family goals and/or traditions, and individual women’s desires. The goal of controlling births by the state according to Greenhalgh is, “...to bring the production of human beings in line with the production of material goods” (Greenhalgh 1994:6). This ideal does not take into account the various reasons why families choose to have more than one child. The trend has been to adjust the rules of the policy to compromise with these beliefs.
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