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Originally Posted by varmint
the generation that drowned their daughters in buckets because of the one child policy is now seriously expecting to be care for in their old age by the surviving kids?
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China has been drowning girl babies for centuries. The only child families of recent generations impose the obligation of caring for the elderly on the one child. As the kid is growing up he gets showered with attention because he's likely to be the only grandkid for both sets of grandparents as well as the only child. There's even a term for it in China, that translates roughly as "Little Emperor". But as he grows up, he's expected to care for the older generation. Typically the families will live with each other or maybe in the same building. Often they hire a peasant from the countryside to be a live-in maid.
Another issue China has to deal with is that it now has many more marriageable men than women. In recent decades there have been about 118 boy babies born for every girl baby. A lot of Chinese men are never going to have a girlfriend, let alone marry. In the US, there are more professional single women than men, so maybe someday mail order husbands from China will become a thing, or maybe successful Chinese men will purchase US mail order brides.