When one seems much better than two

Changes in family planning policies raise some highly emotional problems for many

It is near to being the ultimate in temper tantrums, young children threatening to kill themselves or to kill someone else if they do not get their way. In this case the someone else is the child's prospective sibling, and getting their own way means continuing to be their parent's one loved child.

Chinese news outlets have reported such negative reactions after parents have told their only child of their plans to have another child, and indeed such threats are said to have induced some mothers to have their pregnancies terminated.