Population
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Please read the box in our text entitled, “Where Are the Girls? China’s One-Child Policy”.
1. Which Chinese strategies do you feel would work in the U.S.; which would not, and why?
2. What do you see as the positive and negative long term consequences of China’s policy?
Please read, “The Birth Control Solution”.
3. What is this author’s two pronged strategy to reducing population?
4. What forces do you feel would prevent the implementation of his strategy?
There is a shifting demographic in the U.S. population. The retired and elderly will make up an
increasing proportion of the population.
Please read, “Introduction to the Aging Population”.
5. What do you see as the political and economic consequences of this changing population?