China is gripped by a huge baby boom. 18. 5 million children were born in 2016 alone. Thats 2 million above the average over the last five years and the highest number this century. Translator before families were fine for having a second child. Now theres no need to pay for anything. Chinas 1child policy a population control measure has been lifted. Since january 2016, all couples are free to have a second child. In the six months after the policy change, new problems have emerged. Death rates during pregnancy and childbirth, Maternal Death rate increased 30 compared to no contact with water, no getting out of bed, and constant attention by immediate family and relatives. Although this custom has changed over the sent tries, mothers are expected to receive postpartum care. With the familys relative elsewhere, Nuclear Families are becoming more common be in cities like shanghai and theres been a recent rise in mothers spending their sitting month in facilities rather than at home. One
I think it would be helpful to define what we are walking about. What is chinas onechild policy . Guest the onechild policy is a bit of a misnomer. It is a name we use to describe a set of rules, restrictions, that china has placed to regulate family population and the size of the family. Theoretically you could call it 1. 5 child and ten it moved to a twochild policy. Host it is not one law but a basket of policies. Guest that is right. Host when did it happen . When did it go into effect . Guest i say 1980 when the communist party sent out an open letter to the members saying we are adviceing everyone to move to a onechild family. Advise. Host you are saying this went under effect under ping. What was going on in china that was so important that people imagined they needed an idea of the policy like this . Mao had just passed away and the population was growing. There was a worry that chinas population was going to overwhelm the showers and there wouldnt be enough to go around and th
Breezy with highs in the lower mid 40s. Dry weather is expected as we continue to the end of the work week. Thursday and friday temperatures will struggle to reach the upper 40s and low 50s. This weekend expect the arctic blast to continue and highs to continue in the 40s. Happening right now. City of columbia water crews are repair a water main break near the 11hundred block of st. Andrews road. This is near the st. Andrews commons apartments. Overnight we received calls to our newsroom about residents not having any water there. Utility crews are actively working to repair the water main break now. Well let you know when those repairs are complete. The polls predicting the projected winners in the New Hampshire primaries proved correct. But there was at least one surprise last night. Karin caifa reports from manchester with the primary results, and whats next in the president ial race. Winners here in New Hampshire. Both of them coming off of losses in iowa last week. Bernie sanders
Where ted cruz and Hillary Clinton claimed victory. This makes what wi happen next in nevada and South Carolina even more interesting. After winning in iowa, ted cruz didnt even come in second in new hampshire. Billionaire Businessman Donald Trump snagged an easy win in tuesdays primary, with ohio gov. John kasich running a distant second and cruz in 3rd with the other gop rivals just behind. All of them are vowing to campaign aggressively in South Carolina. And the big question on a lot of our minds when these candidates get to the florida primary on march 15. How many of them will be left . Coming up at 530. Who isnt going to make the cut. Is marco rubio safe ian. All eyes will no be on South Carolina and nevada. The republican primary in South Carolina is saturday, donald trump there with ted cruz second. Is next for candidates. Thats also on saturday, february 20th. Developing out of michigan this morning, several people are hurt after a shooting with a deputy at a high school. It
Coming up in less than 10 minutes. Donald trump and Bernie Sanders gearing up to head to South Carolina after both winning big in the New Hampshire primary. Votes are still being tallied but candidates are reacting on social media to this first primary. We are are seeing a lot of crazy stuff on twitter right now. The biggest thing we are singhs Chris Christie telling people he is not going to go to South Carolina. The other thing we saw was some of the candidates congratulating one another on what was being told as a crazy night and things we saw we did not see coming. Like ted ted crews coming in third congratulating donald trump. Hillary clinton wishing Bernie Sanders well. What is next . Things could get nasty. Expect the gop candidates to race to the top. South carolina and nevada are coming up in the next two weeks. Most republican candidates plan to fly to South Carolina this morning and get ready to get at nauseous. President ial hopefuls and supporters are planning to spend 35