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On a related note: How harshly was the One Child Policy enforced where you're from? Like... did you know anyone or heard of anyone that managed to somehow give birth to a 2nd child... especially in urban areas or when the first child is a male (since rural areas had like an exception if the first child was female).
I'm just curious because I somehow managed to survive... like... I have no idea what the odds are to be a second son born during One Child Policy. Like my maternal grandparents had 3 daughters and they also only have daughters. My mom is the youngest so she had children the latest, so when my mom had not one, but two male children, my maternal grandfather was sooo happy, that's what my mom said.
Like... I have existential crisis all the time...
I don't think I would've been born if the policy was enforced more strictly... like if I was in the north for example...
Do you have any siblings at all?
One of my highschool teachers said this and it has stuck with me for so many years, because it's true
The One Child Policy wasn't what broke Chinese demographics. It simply accelerated a demographic shift that would have happened on its own anyway
Ppl were crafty, so there were always ways around it... But then if ppl were like my parents who didn't even want the first child anyway, then yeah they'd be nudged to not have the second
So I do not have siblings