January 11, 2013

China's 1-Child Policy Creates 'Little Emperors'

Stephanie Pappas, Live Science

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Children born under China's one-child policy, which limits most urban families to a single child, are less trusting, more risk-averse and more pessimistic than children born before the policy went into action, a new study finds.

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