China changes mindset after failed one child policy

               It took the Chinese government 53 years to realize that their 'oh so brilliant' one child policy was a failure. From the start, it was quite obvious that this policy wouldn't work out. The first oblivious problem would be enforcing this law, and since the Chinese population is rapidly growing from an already bloated state, how would they make sure every citizen were to follow the policy. Was the Chinese government expecting each and every one of their citizens to be law abiding? We learned that from the years that this policy has been in existence, families would have these 'secret' children, which basically are children who didn't have any records of being born. Although you actually had families that followed the law and only had one child. These families that chose to obey the policy would most probably chose to have boys. This meant that if they had a girl during their first pregnancy they would abort it, and try again for a boy. This eventually led to an imbalance in the sex ratios in China, and not to mention the ageing population too. It is estimated that there are 200 million people over the age of 60, but that number is expected to double in the next 20 years. The result of having an old population means that there are less people working, and these elderly rely on money made from working citizens to come in as their retirement fund. This is why China reconsidered their harsh one child policy, and is now less strict about it.