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"Wang, the human resources administrator, said she wants an only child because she was one herself: 'We were at the center of our families and used to everyone taking care of us. We are not used to taking care of and don't really want to take care of others.'"

That puts a lot of inertia on the side of maintaining the low fertility rate now seen in China. The low fertility rate, in turn, will keep China's age structure very unbalanced, and is likely to exacerbate the very unbalanced sex ratio found there.




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