China's one-child policy: the only child's view

2014-10-10 10:42

By (Agencies)

Reuters Photographer Carlos Barria photographed a person born in each year China's one child policy has been in existence; from a man born in 1979, to a baby born in 2014, and asked them if they would have like to have siblings.

Starting late last year, China began allowing millions of families to have two children, part of a plan to raise fertility rates and ease the financial burden on a rapidly ageing population.

China's one-child policy: the only child's view

Jiejin Qiu, who is six months pregnant with her first baby, poses underwater during a photo shoot at a local wedding photo studio in Shanghai, September 5, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]


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Cai Hua, who was born in 1979, poses for a photograph in Shanghai August 30, 2014. Hua said: "I wish I had a sister. I prefer to have a sister rather than a brother. I have a lot of friends who have a brother and they usually fight with each other. I think it would be very funny but I would prefer to have a sister." [Photo/Agencies]