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Originally Posted by Ron61
Not in this country but China had a one baby per family law for a long time. I think they have now repealed it as they were starting to run out of young people to fill certain positions It did slow their population growth but hurt in other ways. Not sure which it was but say they had 10,000 baby girls and 4,000 baby boys. When they grew up, that left them with a real problem about having new people for training. And an even bigger problem for the distant future.
Ron
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They still have the policy enacted. In the city, you are allowed 1 child. You can have another one, but you have to pay through your nose. In rural areas, they are allowed 2 children. Right now, the birthrate in China is roughly 119 boys for every 100 girls, but in rural areas, the number of boys increase considerably. This isn't so apparent in the city as it is in rural farm country where there are very few women. When China adopted this law, girl babies seemed to disappear as they could not do as much work on the farm as a boy could. This was when the 1 child policy was enforced everywhere. The men in rural China are trying to bring the women from the city to the country, but somehow, the women just don't want to live a life of dirt floors, no windows or doors, and lots of physical work.