July 14, 2021
Children play next to adults at a park in Beijing, China, on June 1, 2021.
Reuters
For Wang Huaiying, the elders in her home village cared a lot about having a male heir. Families she grew up around would often have three or four children in the hope of getting a boy, even during the days of China’s one-child policy.
Born and raised in the countryside of Linyi, in eastern China’s Shandong province, the 35-year-old just had her third child , a boy.
The boy will have two older sisters , and Wang said she chose to have a third child partly because of the traditional desire to have a male in the family.