Recently, China announced that married Chinese couples may have up to three children, marking a major shift in public policy.
For many of us, it wasn't that long ago when China's infamous one-child policy was still in place: after all, China only officially relaxed its regulations to allow couples to have two children in 2015.
Given that the original one-child policy was put in place in 1980, and lasted a full 35 years before being replaced by the two-child policy, why is China increasing their limit on children just six years after the last change?
To answer that, we will have to dive into why the one-child policy was implemented in the first place, and the issues it caused along the way.