{"id":16315,"date":"2018-05-21T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16315"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:59:12","slug":"china-to-scrap-all-child-limits-in-desperate-bid-to-fix-its-ageing-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/china-to-scrap-all-child-limits-in-desperate-bid-to-fix-its-ageing-population\/","title":{"rendered":"China &#8216;to scrap all child limits&#8217; in desperate bid to fix its ageing population"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/thumbnails\/image\/2018\/05\/21\/15\/china-babies.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>People have stopped having children because it&#8217;s too expensive. Yup&#8230;Economic birth control is a thing in China, and it&#8217;s well entrenched in America as well. Our population isn&#8217;t exactly shrinking yet, but growth is way down, especially among the well educated and wealthy.<br \/>\nImagine for a second how US population growth would stall, or even shrink, if birth control was available to ALL&#8230;not just the one&#8217;s who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;China &#8216;to scrap all child limits&#8217; in desperate bid to fix its ageing population&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/china-one-child-policy-rule-two-children-limits-birth-rate-fertility-a8361781.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/china-one-child-policy-rule-two-children-limits-birth-rate-fertility-a8361781.html<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have stopped having children because it&#8217;s too expensive. Yup&#8230;Economic birth control is a thing in China, and it&#8217;s well entrenched in America as well. Our population isn&#8217;t exactly shrinking yet, but growth is way down, especially among the well educated and wealthy. Imagine for a second how US population growth would stall, or even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-16315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17142,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/winnie-the-pooh-banned-from-disneyland-in-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":16315,"position":0},"title":"Winnie the Pooh &#8216;banned from Disneyland in China&#8217;","date":"December 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Xi does look a LOT like Pooh. 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