China Is Still Haunted by Its One-Child Policy

Residents of mainland China are concerned about discrimination based on family size more than any other population and are likely to have friends discourage them from having additional children, according to a comprehensive new study shared with National Review.

The study was conducted by the Institute of Family Studies and Brigham Young University’s Wheatley Institute and relied on surveys of nearly 10,000 people across about a dozen countries. The surveys revealed a divergence in attitudes toward family formation between mainland China and their eastern neighbors of Japan and South Korea. The separation is likely a result of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy, which ran from 1979 to 2015, researchers said.