‘You Are a Rarity Among Young Chinese Women,’ a Friend Said
I’m 28, I have no children and I want to have more than one. I say this as a single child myself.
I lament the absence of the younger sibling I could have had if my parents had not aborted it. But there was no way they wouldn’t have. “Having a second child was like running the red light,” my mother has said. “It was against the law.”
I felt lonely growing up. After the Chinese government announced last week that married couples could now have up to three children, I asked my parents, both born well before the one-child policy and with siblings themselves, if they had wanted more children.… Seguir leyendo »