The Family Planning Association has announced its intention to “intervene” in order to help reduce the number of abortions with unmarried women and adolescent girls.
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After imposing the unique child’s policy from 1980 to 2016, China borrows the reverse path. The turn taken by demography worries politicians. With only 10.62 million births in 2021 against 12 million in 2020 and even 17.86 million in 2016, the country faces both a slowdown, but also to demographic aging.
If, officially, the population continues to increase slightly, the birth rate – 7.52 per 1,000 inhabitants – is the lowest registered since the arrival of the Communist Party (CPC) in power in 1949. End 2021, 1,4126 billion Chinese were officially, an increase of 480,000 (+ 0.034%) compared to 2020. The lowest percentage growth since the Great Famine of 1958-1961.
If the curves extend, the middle empire will pass, from 2022, under the symbolic bar of the 10 million births. By 2020, the World Economic Forum had planned that in 2100, China, with 732 million inhabitants, would be less populated than India (1.09 billion) but also Nigeria (791 million).
“improve reproductive health”
To stop this decline, the country authorizes, since the end of May 2021, Chinese couples to have three children. While many couples highlight the cost of living and housing to justify their reserve in the face of this policy, the provinces multiply incentives, for example, increasing to 350 days maternity leave in the case of third child.
In recent times, however, it is especially the measures restricting the abortion that retain attention. The same association for the family planning which, for years, has interfered with the intimacy of couples and has forced many women to abort, will now lead the opposite policy. She will “intervene,” she said in early February, to help reduce the number of abortions, by advocating respect for “traditional values” with unmarried women and adolescent girls who wish to interrupt a pregnancy.
“We want to further orient the way young people see marriage and family, relearn how to raise several children in a family, promote a new positive culture of marriage and parenthood,” explains the family planning. According to the National Health Commission, there were nearly 9 million abortions carried out in China in 2020, of which 40% on adolescent girls, indicated in May 2021 the expert Wang Pei’an in a Chinese Parliament Commission. He lamented that “because of the sexual liberalization from the West, 70% of adolescent girls [had] a positive image of sex before marriage”.
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