*[Enwl-eng] Personal legacy of China's one-child policy

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                   Global Edition | 4 September 2023 
                 
           
                   
                    
                 
           
           
                  Whether you’re the “golden child” or the “problem child”, anyone with siblings will be familiar with the rivalry and competition that comes with growing up together – and it doesn’t necessarily end when you form relationships and families of your own.

                  For many young women in China with brothers, this is made even harder by the cultural preference for sons and the remnants of the country’s one-child policy. As researcher Chihling Liu found in thousands of posts on Chinese social media, daughters are discriminated against in their own families, and yet are expected to financially support their parents and brothers. These expectations, which leave women socially isolated, under financial pressure and even suicidal, should be of great concern in a country with a declining birth rate and huge gender imbalance.

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                          Avery Anapol

                        Commissioning Editor, London
                       
                 
                   
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