Comparative view of family policy

• China’s one child policy

  • Chinas gov control policy discouraged couples from having more than one child
  • WILSON: policy is supervised by workplace family planning committees; women mums seek permission to try and become pregnant, and there is often a waiting list and a quota for each factory.
  • Couples who comply get free child healthcare and higher tax allowances.
  • Coupkes ho have more than one child will need to pay a fine and just repay the allowances. Also women face pressure to undergo sterilisation after their first child.
• Nazi family policy 


  Two fold

  • 375000 disabled people sterilised, and many later killed
  • Healthy and supposedly ‘racially pure‘ encouraged to breed a ‘master race’ so restricted abortion and contraception. - Women kept to children, kitchen & church.
• Communist Romania

  • Marriage age lowered to 15
  • stricter divorce
  • banned contraception & abortion
  • IVF made free
  • less tax for married couples