China families lukewarm about easing of one-child policy

Beijing

WHEN China announced that it was relaxing its one-child policy in late 2013, marketing director Kang Lu chatted with her husband about whether they wanted a second baby. "But given our current circumstances, we quickly abandoned the idea," she said. "It wasn't a tough decision."

They were not alone. So far, a good number of Chinese families have been less than enthusiastic about the partial relaxation of the policy, choosing to stick with one child, often for practical and economic reasons, but also because decades of government propaganda have convinced them that one child really is best.