Dear MEL Topic Readers,
China one-child policy: can dropping limits increase birth rates?
Generation One Child had been created in the 1980s to cope with the rapidly growing population in China. Exempted were those who depended on the family workforce like farmers. The policy apparently worked well to serve the purpose. However, it seemed to have helped create an unexpected social problem. One child preference. Though the policy was eased off to have another child, not so many parents, who themselves were the only child, weren’t so encouraged to have a second child. In fact, there were around 30 million new births in the late 1960s but the figure declined to half its peak in 2019 to 15 million and plunged to 10 million in 2020. Even though the child policy is expected to be removed soon, will those younger generations, who had grown in small, mostly single-child, families, be motivated to have more than one child? And this isn’t only China’s problem. South Korea and Japan are suffering the same historic problem.
Enjoy watching the video to learn about what discourages young parents from having more than one child.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-56608495
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