China's New Policy
After 35 years from its first implementation, China is now ended the restrictions that limit families to one child. One would think more babies should be born because of this, but that is likely not the case. China may have become a single-child society. There is no incentive to have more children because of the high cost to raise them. Many families prefer to have boys as opposed to girls, because they carry forward the ancestral line. In a study conducting in 1975, one third of women chose to abort their baby after learning they would have a girl. There are an estimated 62 million women missing from China's population because of sex-selective abortion and neglect. This means that there is tens of millions more males than females in China. The original purpose of the policy was to lower birth rate and increase the amount of working age people without many dependents.