As world population hits 8 billion, China frets over too few babies

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese software developer Tang Huajun loves playing with his two-year-old in their apartment on the outskirts of Beijing but he said he is unlikely to have another child.

Such decisions by countless people like Tang will determine the course not only of China's population but that of the world, which the United Nations says is projected to reach 8 billion on Tuesday.

Tang, 39, said many of his married friends have only one child and, like him, they are not planning any more. Younger people aren't even interested in getting married let alone having babies, he said.

The high cost of childcare is a major deterrent to having children in China, with many families in an increasingly mobile society unable to rely for help on grandparents who might live far away.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world-population-hits-8-billion-010203921.html

[3catwoman3]

1. Talk about the ultimate irony.

The country that spent decades enforcing their one child policy is now worried about too few babies being born.

[Irish_Dem]

6. China now has a bride shortage and bribes or kidnaps women from other countries.

Thailand, Cambodia, North Korea.

All those years of killing female infants caused a bride shortage.

[Lovie777]

2. Are you kidding me?......

all those years one child strongly preferable males. One daughter per family and any more girls were disposed of. And yes, the irony.

I hear Russia is feeling the same effects, that's why they are stealing people preferably children from Ukraine.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. One daughter per family, others disposed of, males preferred? Link to that?

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes Russia is in negative population growth. It is why they are kidnapping Ukrainian children.

Or one of the reasons why.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. There was bound to be a negative overshoot.

I imagine managing population is like steering a supertanker through a slalom course.