Online videos portraying squabbling families censored in China to encourage people to have more babies

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For decades, couples were restricted to having a single child, but with its elderly population set to grow to 520 million by 2050, China is now taking drastic steps to boost its falling birth rate.

China desperately needs its people to have more babies. The country is facing a demographic disaster and it's a crisis for the economy. Put simply, there are not enough young people and too many elderly. Drastic times call for drastic measures. The latest one being employed by Chinese censors is to take down short online videos that portray unhappy Chinese families with stories about difficult and demanding mother-in-laws and lazy husbands.

An official statement posted by the government on China's social media platform Weibo says these programmes cause 'extreme emotions' and 'amplify and exaggerate conflict', especially the relationships between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The problem is, as one video is removed, dozens of fakes of the original pop up online.

 

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