How does one child policy affect education in china?

China was struggling with a large population with too many mouths to feed, rising education costs an other difficulties. In 1979, they introduced the one child policy to limit each family to one child. This curbed the country's growth, binging it to below 1.2 billion with the implementation of fines, education on the importance of family planning, longer maternity leaves ad other benefits to such families. This was a success for it reduced the number of people to feed drastically and thus allowed the government to focus more on the country's economy.

However, in recent years, china has been facing an aging population too little youths to support tem. All the medical fees, groceries, utility bills --- lie on the youth's shoulders, increasing their financial burden. Furthermore, there a gender imbalance, where a dangerously high gender ratio is present. There are 115.8 boys to every 100 girls in 2014. This leads to low birth rates and thus taxes increase and high cost of living come into place. The child faces a stressful education because they want their only child to succeed and ma be less altruistic and trusting, more timid, less competitive, more pessimistic and less conscientious.

In the past, Singapore implemented something similar, the two child policy where one family was allowed to only have 2 children. But it was facing the same problems as china and thus was removed.

The one child policy has its pros and cons and has helped china in many ways.