Once upon a time in the UK, the average British family was said to have 2.4 children, so technically, nobody was in an average family, baring a disastrous magic trick. In China, for a couple of decades now, there has been a one child policy. There's no doubt that it has helped control the country's population growth, but it's strange to witness some of the effects. Each child in China is sacred, far more so than in other parts of the world. The child will have no brothers or sisters, and for the new generation, this means no cousins either. As kids have no family children to play with, it's remarkably quiet when you see children. You can't help but think that this is going to cause big some big social changes. For a start, psychologically,
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