Process Paper The Rights of A Family, The Responsibilities of A Nation

The document summarizes a process paper written by two students on their senior project website about China's one-child policy. They researched topics related to the theme of "Rights and Responsibilities in History" and chose to focus on the one-child policy as students with Chinese heritage who could personally relate to it. They conducted research at libraries and online, building an annotated bibliography and finding primary sources like photographs and articles. They built their website using the Weebly platform with custom coding and design elements. The one-child policy addressed the rights and responsibilities of the Chinese government and families but ultimately created unintended social consequences, making it a complex issue they aimed to explore.

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Process Paper The Rights of A Family, The Responsibilities of A Nation

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PROCESS PAPER The Rights of a Family, the Responsibilities of a Nation

Joyce Cao Nancy Li

Senior i!ision "ro#p $ebsite Category

For this years Rights and Responsibilities in History theme, we created a project on China's famous ne!Child "olicy# $e deliberated on topics such as %ri&ona's 'mmigration Reform and the regulation of the meat pac(ing industry, but as students with Chinese heritage, we pic(ed this topic because we could personally relate to it# )he ne!Child "olicy had rightly targeted social and economic problems caused by a rapidly growing Chinese population, but it also infringed upon the rights of families, as well as causing a host of social problems by affecting China's demographics# $e began our research by first heading for the public library to loo( for secondary sources# )hen we went to *ni+ersity of %ri&onas main library, where we too( notes on primary sources, including information on the ne!Child "olicy's ad+ocates, the principle reasons behind its implementation, as well as how it may ha+e led to gender imbalance and infanticide in the Chinese population# From then on, we built our annotated bibliography# ,ater, we searched e-tensi+ely for images, boo(s, and other articles on 'nternet archi+es.digitali&ed newspapers, and museum collections# $e were able to find original photographs and articles to include in our project# %fter our research, we began building our website using the $eebly platform# $e already had plenty of e-perience with this platform/ it was our choice of category for pre+ious 0ational History 1ay competitions# ur websites customi&ed theme was created by twea(ing the H)2,

and C33 coding, and employing %dobe "hotoshop and "aint )ool 3%' for header images# $e di+ided the writing of the pages, coding, and graphic design between each group member# 4efitting this years theme, the Chinese Family "lanning "olicy addresses the rights and responsibilities of the Chinese go+ernment and Chinese families# 3ince a go+ernment is responsible for caring for its population, the Chinese go+ernment was arguably doing the right thing.responsibly

caring for future generations at the e-pense of second or third children# Howe+er, China's aging wor(force and declining wor(ing population means that e+entually, there will not be enough young people to care for the elderly# )here is also the so!called 56!7!85 problem, where four grandparents and two parents all focus their energy and attention onto one child, the 5little 9mperor5 of the family# )he reproducti+e rights of a family are also infringed by this strict policy# %s such, the ne!Child

"olicy, concei+ed with good will, ultimately created more unwanted social conse:uences# 't is a comple- issue with many +iewpoints, which we wanted to e-plore through our website project#