Comparative view on social policies

- China's government made a control policy to discourage couples from having more then one child

--> this is supervised by workplace family planning committees where women must seek their permission to try for a child and there is often a waiting list and quota for each factory

--> couples who comply with the policy get extra benefits (free child healthcare, only children having a higher priority in education and housing later in life) while those who don't must repay allowances and pay a fine which causes women to feel pressured to undergo sterilization after their first child

- restricted contraception

- restricted abortion

- made unmarried adults ans childless couples pay an extra 5% income tax

- made divorce more difficult to get

- lowered marriage age to be 15 instead

- set up infertility centres

- encouraged the healthy and racially pure to breed a master race (eg-restrict access to abortion and contraception)

- tried keeping women out of work and confined them to the kitchen,childcare and church so that they can perform their biological role instead

- compulsorily sterilized 375,000 disabled people that were seen as unfit to breed on the grounds of physical malformation (eg-blind, death and epilepsy) many of which died in concentration camps later

- family is a private sphere where the government doesn't intervene unless things go wrong (eg-child abuse)