More or less 40 years later, CCP learned nothing from it. They do seem to know why people were willing to have more children in the past, neither do they unders

More or less 40 years later, CCP learned nothing from it. They do seem to know why people were willing to have more children in the past, neither do they understand why almost no one want to have two or more kids. They first imitated USSR that household essentials to be distributed by headcount regardless the age and/or other situation of the individual differences. Given everything was scarce from ~50s to ~80s, the only logical move would be having more babies as babies obviously don't need as much food as adults and thus the other family members will have more to share in comparison to those have less or no babies. In other words, people chose to have more babies and let those did not have as many to feed them instead of having less babies and feeding other families had more babies. In 80s, such economical incentive was gone, CCP did not have to anything really to make the birth rate drop as people were bound by their economic capabilities again. Unfortunately, they again made a mistake that could not be bigger by adopting birth control and introduced the birth fine/fee. They had their chances to revert the trend by cancelling it in 00s as there were still some momentum. At the same time, Wen Jiabao started serials of economical changes that made everything related with babies extremely expensive: healthcare, housing and education. Note that I don't even mention baby food, clothing and accessories etc. For those who born in 80s, they may still have brothers/sisters so it might be easier for them but again, they are now in their late 30s or earlier 40s, not really the best age to have babies. For those born in 90s or 00s, I would say 99.99% of them were the only child in the family. Now, I would say at least 80% of them make no more than RMB5000 per month, which is barely enough feeding themselves. For a couple, they are most likely have to support 4 elders, some might event have to support 6 or more(their parents and maybe grandparents, most of them have no pensions at all). And now, they are told that they can have 3 children. Wow, so "generous", but how are they going to support them?