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Chinas one-child policy is credited with creating an economic

boom,but it has had devastating side effects. Here are five
reasons why the superpower has abandoned it.
Today China abandoned its one-child policy amid fears that too few
children are being born, and there are too few females in the
population. So why has it canned a policy that has been in place since
1980?
1. The Chinese population is ageing
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Thirty-five years of birth restrictions mean that its native labour pool is
shrinking. Thats a problem that many wealthy economies solve by
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The one-child policy has led to a dramatic gender imbalance. Boys,
Professor Steve Tsang, professor of contemporary studies at Englands

University of Nottingham, estimates that 20-30 million young Chinese
males have no chance of finding a life partner because there are too
few women in the population. The gender imbalance is going to be a
very major problem, he told the Guardian. That creates social
problems and that creates a huge number of people who are
frustrated. This is just one of the reasons why
5. The two-child policy is very popular
China has been experimenting with loosening the law for the last two
years. Since 2013, couples from ethnic minorities or rural areas have
been allowed to have two children if their firstborn was a girl. But just
because the government has now abandoned the one-child policy,
doesnt mean that the public will immediately ramp up its breeding as
in Western nations, many young women are choosing to have just one
child, or no children at all, for cost and lifestyle reasons.
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