介绍:
: Let’s talk about another social problem that has been maybe – maybe – caused by this policy: the skewed sex ratio. Dr. Zheng, how much should we blame the single-child policy for the current gender imbalance?
Guest (ZZZ): Well, I think that there has been a lot of research on that, and we can see that it’s partly due to the policy; but largely, we see that sex selection is very voluntary, and limiting family size is also voluntary, so I don’t think the loosening of the policy will help with that a lot. When we observed sex-selective abortions, they happened mostly to the second birth. In summary, we cannot expect too much from this policy change.
