{"id":547180,"date":"2021-05-31T16:06:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547180"},"modified":"2021-05-31T16:06:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:06:41","slug":"china-now-says-it-will-allow-families-to-have-three-children-amid-fears-of-population-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-now-says-it-will-allow-families-to-have-three-children-amid-fears-of-population-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"China Now Says It Will Allow Families To Have Three Children Amid Fears Of Population Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-now-says-it-will-allow-families-to-have-three-children-amid-fears-of-population-crash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547180&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-539721740.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>China announced Monday that it will now allow couples to have three children, further updating the Chines Communist Party\u2019s infamous \u201cone-child policy\u201d amid concerns that the country\u2019s declining birth rate has it headed for a population crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina said on Monday that it would allow all married couples to have three children, ending\u00a0a two-child policy\u00a0that has failed to raise the country\u2019s declining birthrates and avert a\u00a0demographic crisis,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/31\/world\/asia\/china-three-child-policy.html\">the New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThe announcement by the ruling Communist Party represents an acknowledgment that its limits on reproduction, the world\u2019s toughest, have jeopardized the country\u2019s future,\u201d the outlet continued. \u201cThe labor pool is shrinking and the population is graying, threatening the industrial strategy that China has used for decades to emerge from poverty to become an economic powerhouse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Births in China have fallen in recent years, and the country\u2019s \u201ctotal fertility rate\u201d stands at just 1.3 children per couple, below the country\u2019s \u201creplacement rate\u201d of 2.1 children per couple. Harder still, the country\u2019s population is aging, leaving China on the verge of having to care for thousands of elderly individuals who had only one child \u2014 or none at all.<\/p>\n<p>For some, the news was a welcome change from earlier policies that first limited couples to one child, then two. Others, though, told media that they are not interested in having more children simply because the government allows them to,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/chinese-couples-react-to-three-child-policy\"> according to the Guardian<\/a>. Still others suggested that while China is improving its family policies, it has yet to provide any encouragement to couples who have not yet had children through improved maternity care and family leave policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t they know that most young people are already tired enough just trying to feed themselves?\u201d one anonymous commenter told the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision-makers have probably realized that the population situation is relatively severe,\u201d \u201can independent demographer based in the southern Chinese city of Zhanjiang\u201d added. \u201cBut merely opening up the policy to three children and not encouraging births as a whole, I don\u2019t think there will be a significant increase in the fertility rate. Many people don\u2019t want to have a second child, let alone a third child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The policy, of course, applies only to certain populations.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-china-health-269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c\">Associated Press reported last year<\/a>, while China is trying to pressure ethnic Chinese residents to reproduce, it is forcibly sterilizing members of ethnic minority populations, including the Uyghurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-85 Component-p-0-2-76\">\u201cThe Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country\u2019s Han majority to have more children,\u201d the AP said last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-85 Component-p-0-2-76\">\u201cWhile individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents, and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members, and a former detention camp instructor,\u201d the outlet added. \u201cThe campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of \u2018demographic genocide.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China announced Monday that it will now allow couples to have three children, further updating the Chines Communist Party\u2019s infamous \u201cone-child policy\u201d amid concerns that the country\u2019s declining birth rate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278694,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-539721740.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"China Now Says It Will Allow Families To Have Three Children Amid Fears Of Population Crash","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-539721740.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"China Now Says It Will Allow Families To Have Three Children Amid Fears Of Population Crash","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}