e children is decreased. Especially in the cities there is almost no such discrimination. So hopefully the problem will not be long-lasting. In order to escape from the taxes and other punishments of having more than one child, many families simply do not report the birth of new babies. This phenomenon is more common in the countryside because the control is looser and it is easier to get a job and house. This makes the statistics from the government more or less doubtful because the figures do not include the so-called "black population". Many of them could not have enough and proper education and other social benefits. Thus they have to start to work much earlier. It is for example very common in some poor rural areas that girls in the family have to give up school so the family can afford the boys education. People in rural areas usually are allowed to have two children since the beginning of 1986 while it is strictly forbidden in cities. (However, this exemption was withdrawn in 1995) Researchers have also found that people with lower education tend to have more children in average (of course it is not true in every case). Since families with higher education and better economy usually have fewer children and vice versa, the difference between the spending on each child will somewhat increase. Some experts are thus worried about that the discrepancy between different social classes will increase somewhat in the future, both when it comes to living standard and life style. If there are so many negative effects following the one-child policy, does this have to be carried out? As we all are aware of, the global significance of China's demographics is likewise enormous. Whatever the size of China's population is at the dawn of the 21st century it is certain to account of twenty percent of the world's projected population. Since the world's population is nearing the limit of what the earth could handle, the problem of China's population ...
