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China’s birth rate crisis: why are fewer Chinese women choosing motherhood?

Inside China

CHAPTER

China Needs to Change the One Child Policy

China has had the culture of fewer children for a few decades, during which family planning was widely promoted. For many people, when they see a family of three children, they find it very unusual and rare. Now the government is encouraging us to have three children; we simply can't afford it. If we have a third child, who would take care of the baby? To have three children means we would need to buy three houses for them. And if all three of them have three children each, we wouldn't be able to handle all of that.

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