China's Changing Economy is Changing Everything...

Something interesting
from ChinaLawBlog.com

Seems that good insurance and a retirement plan are changing the reason to have kids from security to love: In comparison, household income did not have a large influence on the motivation for having children. The use of modern financial products was a much more decisive factor, which was something we didn't expect...

When you look at the style of communication between parents and children in Shanghai, Beijing, these big cities, you're going to find...it's not a top-down, "I give the orders" kind of relationship. On the contrary, you'll find more parents are using a very "equal" method of communicating with their children, trying to create a heart-to-heart dialogue. This obviously runs contrary to the Confucian hierarchical system, is essentially contrary to Confucian traditions.