China Population Third Child Blues

In this Jan. 19, 2019, photo, a nurse feeds a newborn baby at a hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui province. Facing a future demographic crisis and aging society, China’s leaders are desperate to encourage higher fertility rates. But the country’s bureaucrats don’t seem to have gotten the message, fining a couple in a recent widely publicized case for having a third child against the strict letter of the law. That has sparked outrage among the public, who are venting their anger at officials who long persecuted couples for violating the now-scrapped “one-child policy.”(Chinatopix via AP)