If I learned anything during a trip to China a few years ago, it was that anti-family policies can be awfully hard to reverse once they take hold.
My wife and I were there with our son’s family, which included three small children. This was not long after China had lifted its one-child-per-family policy, which had been in place 35 years. China, like many nations today, was beginning to come to grips with the realization that it faced a demographic catastrophe if it couldn’t reverse a child-limiting trend that had become part of the nation’s psyche. But after 35 years, it appeared many young Chinese didn’t want children. Large families, meanwhile, were, and likely remain, as rare as unicorn sightings.
My wife and I were there with our son’s family, which included three small children. This was not long after China had lifted its one-child-per-family policy, which had been in place 35 years. China, like many nations today, was beginning to come to grips with the realization that it faced a demographic catastrophe if it couldn’t reverse a child-limiting trend that had become part of the nation’s psyche. But after 35 years, it appeared many young Chinese didn’t want children. Large families, meanwhile, were, and likely remain, as rare as unicorn sightings.
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