The empty crib
The empty crib
- August 27, 2016
- Wang Feng, sociology, via The Economist, Aug. 27, 2016
In China 80 percent of our respondents say that two children is ideal – an admirably cussed consensus, when one considers the fierceness with which the state enforced a one-child policy until last year. Many will not manage two, says Wang Feng, a demographer at the University of California, [Irvine]. China’s fertility rate has fallen to 1.6, which Mr. Feng ascribes mostly to urbanization, rising university attendance and the opportunity cost of having babies in a country that is quickly becoming richer. China’s economy has been like a rocket: it can be unwise to let go even for a year.
For the full story, please visit http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21705678-our-poll-19-countries-reveals-neglected-global-scourge-number-would-be-parents-who?frsc=dg%7Ca.
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