Changing Ideas About Child-Bearing

IN the past, embracing the idea that "more children means more happiness", rural women thought that if they bear many children, they would be better supported in their old age. So most of the elderly people in Hezhuang Village have up to seven or eigbt children. But in a village in the Linyi City district of Shandong Province, more children has not meant more happiness for parents. Wang Shixiang has four sons and two daughters. Last year, she and her husband finally paid off the debt