what happened if you broke the one child policy 
violators of china s one child policy could be fined forced to have abortions or sterilizations or lose their jobs 5the bottom linechina s one child policy a phrase used for a set of laws related to population growth implemented starting in 1979 represented one of the more draconian modern attempts to intervene in a country s rising demographics while the population did slow the policy also resulted in unintended consequences such as an aging population gender imbalance and a shrinking workforce its discontinuation in 2015 and subsequent measures to encourage higher birth rates reflect china s complex challenges in balancing population control with sustainable economic and social development 