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Fear of loneliness prompts second-child birth boom

By Li Hongyang | China Daily | Updated: 2018-08-03 07:54

Despite the extra financial pressure of raising a second child, Dai Shujuan and her husband wanted another baby so their firstborn would have a sibling to share life's joys and difficulties.

Dai, a 32-year-old homemaker from Changchun, Jilin province, had her first daughter in 2011 and a second in 2015.

The family now spends nearly 40 percent of its monthly income on the children.

Fear of loneliness prompts second-child birth boom

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