‘The last generation’: the young Chinese people vowing not to have children
‘The last generation’: the young Chinese people vowing not to have children
- January 20, 2023
- Wang Feng, sociology, The Guardian, Jan. 20, 2023
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Wang Feng, a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine, said the population decline had begun almost a decade earlier than the United Nations had anticipated. … Wang said the population decline could be attributed to the one-child policy that began three and half decades ago, which resulted in a smaller number of women of childbearing age, people delaying or giving up on marriage and a smaller number of births within marriages. But the pandemic has worsened the situation.
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