BBC News - No siblings: A side-effect of China's one-child policy - 0 views
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Chinese families used to have an average of four children each, but life changed radically in 1979, when a law was introduced dictating that most parents could only have one child. Last week, we learned that the policy will now be relaxed, after being enforced across the world's most populous country for more than a generation.
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"On the township roads, there are slogans written on flamboyant red banners, telling people to have fewer children and raise more pigs,"
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"Most of my audiences don't realise they have a special identity," he explains, noting that many parents even stopped questioning why they couldn't have more than one child and forgot that things had ever been different.
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