Repealing China's One Child Law May Not Cause Baby Boom

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Tags: International, Culture, News, China, population , one child policy

Elly Mui
Nov 2, 2012 20:39 Moscow Time

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A child is carried down a street in Beijing. (c)RIA Novosti, photographer: Vladimir Vyatkin.

A Chinese think-tank is urging leaders to end China's one-child policy and allow two children for every household as soon as possible


CHINA-- The famous one-child policy is being questioned by the China Development Research Foundation, starting a debate on whether repealing the policy would help with China's economic and social issues.

The policy has been criticized for inspiring more violence against less-valued female children, creating a generation of spoiled single "Little Emperor" and "Little Empress" children, and for creating a disproportionate financial burden on youth as China's larger older generation ages. But a study where Chinese parents were allowed to have more than one child shows that financial factors may make it unlikely that repealing the law will result in a baby boom.

Voice of Russia's Elly Mui speaks to Cai Yong from the University of North Carolina on the daring proposal: