@nnoble the standards expected is having a decent place to live, having a car, be able to go out and enjoy life. also chinese find certain services and products not as safe and as good so they will use foreign services and products which will obviously be more expensive. parents are also expected to register the kid to a good kindergarten and pay for his expenses as living costs, books, presents to teachers in holidays, extracurricular courses. when kids are older parents are expected to help there child with buying a car and apartment.. about the working hard concept, also my parents work hard but they still had time for 3 kids, today's generation is more spoiled and a job that you leave in the morning and come back in the evening is considered hard work.
@tigertiger, i looked allot on the net, checked BBC,Washington post, the economist, and xinhua . some do mention the subjec but non is talking about it as thoroughly as i do . most only mention the main reason why chinese continue to have only one child, which is the cost. most dont mention the other reasons, and there are plenty. i think what im writing will shed new light on the matter .
@vicar, you are actually very right ! one of the reasons parents will only have one child is that they have a lot of pressure on them, to work hard to support the child financially and to maintain the standard that is expected from them as middle class urban chinese (which is the type of chinese my article is aiming on ) . this pressure makes them work hard and leaves them no time and energy to take care of more than one child.
@Alien, great comment, and i couldn't agree more ! . my article is about the phenomena among middle class chinese living in the city, and this should be well specified.
also, the reasons for abandoning the 3 decade diplomacy is like you said, they now need more people to light the slowing economy and more people to take care of the old generation.
@vicar, i didnt quite understand your sentence :"Then there's the the attention each child has been expected to get from parents with their education". who expect that? the child or the society ?
and about the fine and the exceptions for the law when it was in place, im all aware of that and already mentioned it in my article . thank you for mentioning it though, obviously this information is crucial for understanding the big picture.
@tigertiger, in chinese media i could guess this was already covered. but in western media im wondering if this topic was made into a whole article or was just mentioned in a comment as part of an article?
guys i've been following the conversation here quietly but thoroughly ..
@alien, i would definitely not study journalism here. but instead listen to fixitwithahammer's advice to write a good article and use it to get a job or internship. im actually working on it right now. its about the one child policy. my claim is that although families can now have more than one baby, they will still decide to only have one. any opinion on that?, did you came across this phenomena and do you agree?
@vicar, if i write to a newspaper or publisher then i would, off course (!), not use this text slang like i do in this forum. i find this forum to be more easy going so i let myself use it, like i do with friends. i do agree on your comment that: who knows who might be reading and will now write here in a more proper way..... also, like i said already in this massage, im now working on my article, collecting interviews, opinions and information. i would love to hear your opinion on the matter i presented.
@dazzer thankx for ur articles. i read the first article u posted, that its bottom line is -working in journalism in china feels like ur wasting ur life. but it seems to me this is mostly for chinese ppl working in chinese media . what about foreigners working in foreign media n writing about china, i think they have it much easier ..
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