Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
China to allow two children for
all couples
Now you can have two children. A
radical and long-expected change was suddenly announced by the nation’s top policy
planning meeting, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of
China (CPC) Central Committee.
The famous one-child policy was officially
in place since 1979, has prevented 400 million births. Parents have faced fines
and other punishments for having more children.
The policy was relaxed in 2013,
allowing pairs to have a second child if one the pair is a single child.
However, this change hasn’t caused any surge in the number of new born babies
because of the change in lifestyle and high education cost.
Gender selective abortions have
been another cause of China's unusual gender imbalance. It is said that there
are approximately 1.16 to 1.26 boys per girl, depending on the source of data.
Men have difficulty finding their partners.
Enjoy reading and guessing how
this policy change will affect the family planning of Chinese couples.
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