'Octomom' vs. China one-child Policy

During Humanities class previously we have been discussing the China one-child policy as well as reaserching a woman who is 33 and has recently had octuplets making her total children count be 14. So in humanities we discussed how much the government has control over the birth of children. My teacher made a long line and on one side it said 'Octomom' and the other end said 'China's one-child policy'. We had to write on a post it note which we thought was better and place it towards china's policy or octomom. If you agreed on both, you put your post-it note in the middle of the line with your explanation written on the post-it.

I put my post-it more to octomom but close to the middle.

( Octomom ________x__________China's One Child Policy)

China: I am against the china policy because it clashes with human rights. The right for humans to do what they want and so on. They should be allowed to have as many kids as they want! I am for the policy because if they didn't enforce this law, China would run out of recourses and basically everyone would die. They need that law to keep living and have to use it.

Octomom: I am against octomom because she is divorced, poor and is living in a 3 bedroom apartment with her mom. She should have stopped at 6 kids. That is already a handful! But I don't think that the U.S needs that law because they aren't running out of recourses right now like China is because its not too overpopulated. The U.S is doing fine without this law right now and there would be no point enforcing it however people should be smart enough to know when to stop.

Our class came up with the same conclusion that there should be counselling centers where people advise woman on how many children they should have depending on their wage.

Octomom and the child law are very different but the laws that apply to one place depend on where you are and depend on what the country has to use.