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[quote=LEONARDO,374231]

She, good question! The one-child policy works well in most parts of China. Well, in some remote rural areas, parents still prefer sons because boys are born physically strong, hence good labors. According to its etymology, the Chinese character "男(nán)”(means male or man), is conjoined by two Chinese characters 田(tián) （means field, farmland） 力(lì)（labor）(田：farmland+力：labor= farmland labor), which means labor on the farmland(田中的劳力). So the Chinese ancestor has defined man’s role in the society as “inborn good labor on the farmland”. Despite thousands of years has passed, China remains a country (strictly speaking) if agriculture (China has about 800 million farmers). In some rural areas, farming remains the main production activity and the major source of the farmers’ income. Mechanization is not popularized in some remote rural areas due to various reasons (whether due to geographical conditions or lacking machinery). Farming is mainly undertaken by manual labors and male are born stronger labors than female, hence the preference for sons in some rural parts. Back to this thread, Zhang Qianqian’s parents have four children. Qianqian is a girl, and she has three siblings. She has a younger sister and a twin of youngest brothers. It is possible that Qianqian’s parents gave birth to two daughters first and they still wanted to have a baby boy. So beyond their control, they gave birth to a twin of baby boys. Four children are surly a heavy burden on such a poverty-stricken family. There might be a vicious cycle for many such families in China that “Because of poverty, →wanna have more kids (male kids，good labors) → (more kids→heavier burden →worse education opportunity) →poorer.(The more kids a poor family have, the poorer. Certainly, it is not always true, but it does apply to many such families).

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