China's one-child policy created a cultural norm so strong that recent government pushes for larger families are failing. Even though the policy ended, people still don't want more than one child, leaving China facing a demographic crisis it can't reverse by decree.
China's obviously a massive population. People think they don't need more people, but it's obviously a big issue with China. So yeah, Chinese are very concerned. They're starting to say you should have more than 2 children if you possibly can, and they're really trying to push it. It's having no effect at all. You can stop people having children— the one-child policy proved that— but you can't get them to have children that they want. And unfortunately, the one-child policy has been so effective that the idea of having one child has become pretty standard in China.
Rising mental illness and falling birth rates have the same cause, it is this.....
