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China pushed one-child policy propaganda for decades. Now couples are reluctant to have more children

Updated: June 2, 2021 at 1:57 pm EST  See Comments

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June 2, 2021 (Family Research Council) – On Monday, in an effort to reverse China’s rapidly declining birthrate, Chinese authorities announced expanding the country’s two-child policy to three. The three-child policy is the third iteration of China’s one-child policy instituted in 1979 for the purpose of slowing population growth. The one-child policy was carried out with unrestrained brutality and it proved all too effective.

Under the one-child mandate, Chinese women were given permission to have one child. Those pregnant with a second were forced to abort their child and were then sterilized. Those who managed to hide until the birth of a second child were fined, demoted at work, and shunned socially. Second children were excluded from ration coupons, leaving families who defied the policy at risk of starvation. In some areas of the country, government officials separated second children from their families shortly after birth. Unsurprisingly, the policy prevented 400 million births, and caused a drastic decline in China’s population.

Now, Chinese leaders observe an aging population and a shrinking young workforce – a direct result of the campaign

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