Source #23

1. What is your source?http://www.pop.org/00000000356/chinas-one-child-policy
2. Who is your source? Population Research Institute...But it is a woman that is writing about her personal story, and experiences with this system in the past.
3. What are their credentials? Good credentials I guess you could say. It a university's website, so I think that you can trust it.
4. What does your source say about your topic? I have been a student of China's one-child policy since the late 1970s, when I became the first American social scientist to conduct a full-length study of a Chinese village. From 1979 to 1980, I lived in rural Guangdong. At the beginning of 1980, the Guangdong provincial government secretly ordered a 1 percent cap on population growth for the year. Local officials had complied the only way they could-by launching a family planning high tide soon thereafter to terminate as many pregnancies as possible.
   The rules governing this high tide were simple: No woman was to be allowed to bear a second child within four years of her first, and third children were strictly forbidden. Furthermore, all women who had borne three or more children by November 1, 1979, were to be sterilized.
5. Do you believe your source? I do believe this source.
6. Why or why not? I believe it because this is someone's personal experience, and they would know about it first hand. This allows me to see directly into what is really occuring..or what did occur, and how it may have changed from then up untill now.