Family structure in China
One-child policy was introduced in 1979 to control the rapid population growth. This policy only allows one child in the family. This results in a lot of females being abandoned since young as a female cannot carry on the job of continuing the family line. Hence, babies being swapped at birth and humiliation that was suffered by the mother when a baby girl was born were scenes being seen during that period of time. Many babies are aborted and hence, this policy is very controversial. Females are highly discriminated, causing gender segregation within Chinese society. However, now the government is starting to relax this policy by allowing more parents to have more than 1 child. If the parents are the only child of their own parents, they can have more than 1 child.
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