[user104658]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes China
Women scared to have kids
Because of the Costs

They spent decades forcing it to be culturally normal for couples to only have one child. It's not surprising that people don't suddenly want to have more.

[bots]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

They spent decades forcing it to be culturally normal for couples to only have one child. It's not surprising that people don't suddenly want to have more.

didn't they actually fine/imprison people that ignored their edict, so a bit stronger than cultural

[user104658]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

didn't they actually fine/imprison people that ignored their edict, so a bit stronger than cultural

Well that's more what I mean - they enforced it legally, and that went on long enough for it to become culturally normal. So when they changed the law to allow people to have more than one child (and now actually WANT them to have more children) they're still not doing it because two parents and one child started to look like "a normal family" to people in China.