Can One-Child Policy Decrease Generation Gap

Running head: CAN ONE-CHILD POLICY DECREASE GENERATION GAP?

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Can one-child policy decrease generation gap? Guanliang Cen University of Minnesota Morris

Author Note This paper was prepared for ECON 3501, taught by Professor Sheng Xiao

CAN ONE-CHILD POLICY DECREASE GENERATION GAP? Abstract In recent years, there are lots of people study in generation gap and try to figure out the best ways to solve it. But they have not got any progress. Meanwhile, the one-child policy has set up in China more than 30 years and it changes Chinese society a lot. As a Chinese, I found that this policy helps us to improve the

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relationship with our parents and it may be decreasing the generation gap. The paper introduces these two issues and tries to find the connection between them. I did a survey and collected 79 reliable samples, which 44 people are the only child and 35 people are non-only child. to analyze this problem.

CAN ONE-CHILD POLICY DECREASE GENERATION GAP? Can one-child policy decrease generation gap? Introduction China’s One-Child Policy is a population control policy which set up in 1979. It restricts the number of children that urban couples can have to one, with exceptions

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for those from ethnic minorities or with a severely disabled child. This policy affects the modern Chinese society a lot. Since the one-child policy, the Chinese parents have focused on the child’s activity than before. As a result, in many Chinese teenagers and children who were born after 1980 think that their generation gap with parents is smaller than the gap between parents and grandparents.

Generation Gap and One-Child Policy analysis Generation gap is the major reason why parents and children are moving away from each other. There are lots of reasons why generation gap exists such as the technology changes, the value of different generations change, the different growth background etc. In Gozzi’s article, he mentions a generation gap in his personal...