GeneticBlueprint Posted January 4 Author Share Posted January 4 1 minute ago, MarSolo said: Okay seriously, to get it back on topic, didn’t China have a one child MAX policy for decades? Or am I mixing up my Asian countries? Correct. The article actually highlights an interesting story regarding that. Quote When Beijing said it would abolish its 35-year-old one-child policy in 2015, officials expected a baby boom. Instead, they got a baby bust. New maternity wards were built only to close a few years later. Sales of baby-care products, including formula and diapers, have dropped. Businesses that focused on babies now target seniors. New preschools built to make child-rearing more affordable struggle to fill classrooms and many have closed. In 2022, the number of preschools in China fell 2%, the first decline in 15 years. ... The shift means some women have gone from trying to dodge punishment for having too many children to being hounded to have more. A decade ago, a woman surnamed Zhang was in a cat-and-mouse game with authorities after she decided to have a second child. She asked that her first name not be used. While pregnant, she left her job to stay out of public view, fearful officials would pressure her to have an abortion, she said. After giving birth, in 2014, she stayed with relatives for a year. When she returned home, local family-planning officials fined her and her husband around $10,000. She said she was forced to have an intrauterine device implanted to prevent pregnancy. Authorities required her to have it checked every three months. Months later, the Chinese government announced the one-child policy would be scrapped. For a while, authorities still demanded Zhang have her IUD checked. She now gets text messages from officials encouraging her to have more children. She deletes them in anger. “I wish they would stop tossing us around,” she said, “and leave us ordinary people alone.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 4 minutes ago, MarSolo said: Okay seriously, to get it back on topic, didn’t China have a one child MAX policy for decades? Or am I mixing up my Asian countries? Yea, until 2016. I think it’s two now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 39 minutes ago, MarSolo said: Okay seriously, to get it back on topic, didn’t China have a one child MAX policy for decades? Or am I mixing up my Asian countries? You're not - that was official Chinese policy from 1979 until 2015. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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