With baby steps, Chinese parents test strictness of the two-child policy
With baby steps, Chinese parents test strictness of the two-child policy
- November 26, 2020
- Wang Feng, sociology, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 26, 2020
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No local government will openly acknowledge that it is allowing third children. And in many places, restrictions continue to be strictly enforced. “Birth policy in China is in a logjam now,” said Wang Feng, a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine. … “Officials all saw the writing on the wall,” Prof. Wang said. One effect, he said, is that enforcement of the two-child policy has been “lax and sporadic, varying from locale to locale.”
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