I linked to some related information in my link blog, but now China Digital News links to a well-researched LA Times article confirming it: "China Fears a Baby Bust". Having only one child is now widely accepted, especially among urban residents. In Shanghai, China's largest city, a recent government survey of about 20,000 young people found that more than 80% preferred to have just one child. Another 5% said they wanted no children at all. My only beef with this article is that it probably should have been titled "Shanghai Fears a Baby Bust", as reporter Don Lee clearly did all of his research in Shanghai. It's really not honest to generalize to "China" fearing a baby bust, or to "urban residents" being especially reluctant to birth children. See here: Guo, 33, comes from the southern province of Guangdong, where people tend to have larger families. But her husband is a native of Shanghai, and he's dead set against that. Part of it is social pressure, she said. If you followed the link to related information, you'd see that the natural rate of growth in the registered population of Shanghai in 2004 was -3.24%, due to a high death rate and low birth rate. Of course, the city is still growing like mad due to domestic immigration.