Women, employers balance cost of another child

Wu Dan has been trying to decide whether or not to have a second child for about two years, since she became eligible, as she and her husband have no siblings.

Now, she feels under more pressure since the central government eased the family planning policy further, allowing all couples to have two children.

"My parents and parents-in-law have been trying to persuade me to have a second child, and they said it is now a State policy," said Wu, 29, a civil servant in Jiangsu province who has a 3-year-old daughter.