Thirty years after the Family Planning Policy was introduced to control the population growth of what was then a poor country, China is starting to face new challenges such as the financial pressures of an ageing population. For many modern families, whether to have one more child or not, is a difficult decision to make.
Only child Zhang Jiayi and only child Wu Wen marry and have their only child Qiqi. A typical family in China today. But they would love to give Qiqi a little brother or sister.
Zhang Jiayi, father, Shanghai, said,"For our generation in most cases both parents worked and during vacation you end up alone at home with the house key around your neck and lonely. no one to play with."
China's family planning policy -- thirty years of it and now well over 200 million kids have no siblings.
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