Newsletter: On our radar: ‘Dragon babies’
Newsletter: On our radar: ‘Dragon babies’
- January 20, 2024
- Wang Feng, sociology, The New York Times, Jan. 20, 2024
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The year of the dragon, which begins next month and occurs every 12 years, has historically seen a spurt of so-called dragon babies. … Women of childbearing age in China, who are having fewer babies than their parents, if any at all, are less likely to believe in the old superstitions. “In the past there have been higher births in auspicious zodiac years,” Wang Feng, an expert on Chinese demographics at the University of California, Irvine, told The Financial Times. “But given the pessimistic economic outlook and pessimism among young people, I doubt we will see a noticeable rebound this year.”
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