{"id":52034,"date":"2023-01-20T21:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/20\/the-last-generation-young-chinese-people-vow-not-to-have-children"},"modified":"2023-01-20T21:12:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:12:27","slug":"the-last-generation-the-young-chinese-people-vowing-not-to-have-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52034","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The last generation\u2019: the young Chinese people vowing not to have children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negative population growth that arrived a decade before forecasts has been exacerbated by Covid and restrictive government policies<\/p>\n<p>Talk to any young woman in urban China about the prospects of having children and the chances are, they are not keen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt costs too much to give kids a decent life. The stuff they teach at school is propaganda, so I\u2019d want to send them to an international school or abroad. But I can\u2019t afford that,\u201d said Kongkong, a 26-year-old researcher who swears she will not have children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/20\/the-last-generation-young-chinese-people-vow-not-to-have-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negative population growth that arrived a decade before forecasts has been exacerbated by Covid and restrictive government policiesTalk to any young woman in urban China about the prospects of having children and the chances are, they are not keen.\u201cIt &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1013,706,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chinas-one-child-policy","category-population","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52034\/revisions\/52035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}