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"China will grow old before it gets rich" and it's way too late to change china can enforce "3 children per household" anytime
by slim 6y ago
"China will grow old before it gets rich" and it's way too late to change
china can enforce "3 children per household" anytime
- Yaa101 6y agoThey don't have the food for that...
- gruez 6y agoForcing people to have children is never a good idea. It will result in millions in unwanted (and thus poorly raised) children.
- justaman 6y agoI wouldn't expect any government to consider this point before making this decision.
- inglor_cz 6y agoNot really. Not sustainably so. The only authoritarian regime that tried to do so was Romania under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. He banned abortion and contraception overnight. There was a massive spike in birth rate that year, but people soon found ways around the ban and birth rate started falling sharply again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770
- coolspot 6y agoYou can more subtle about that. For example since 2007 Russia started to pay “Mother’s capital” for each child born after a first one. ~$10k for a kid. China has enough money to give away.
- inglor_cz 6y agoHungary has tax bonuses for mothers of bigger families. This is a policy constructed to encourage the middle class to breed, unlike the "just give money for each child", which would be more of an incentive for the non-working underclass. Total Fertility Rate in Hungary has grown from abysmal 1.2 to still bad 1.55 or so, still far from simple reproduction, but at least it goes in different direction from most of the developed world.