Evaluate the chinese government's policies to decrease population growth.

The Chinese government has been extremely successful in limiting population growth over the past 30 years. The policies that the government has pursued to accomplish this goal have been controversial because of their potential violation of human rights. China’s one-child policy has been the most successful policy for controlling growth. The government also has encouraged young people to wait to have children to decrease their likely family size and encouraged couples to abort unauthorized pregnancies. Finally, in the early years of the one-child policy, couples with more than one child were often forced to pay the government fines, and some were sterilized at the insistence of the government.