 well we don't have to work too hard to imagine what it's like to grow up in a world where one or at the most two children is the expected norm take china for example which has now been living for several decades with something called the one child policy recent news reports are coming out in fact i heard a story not too long ago where the divorce rate is has risen dramatically in china and as they've tried to figure out why because it's a culture that's traditionally highly valued the permanence of marriage