With a one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

For 35 years, Communists China imposed a harsh one-child policy on its citizens fearing

overpopulation.

2015, they changed the policy to allow for two kids.

Few years later, with an aging population in low birth rates, it was changed to three.

Finally, in 2021, the limit was removed altogether.

And now President Xi Jinping desperate to reverse his nation's population woes has announced

plans for a national pro-birth policy.

Local officials are already encouraging bigger families.

According to Reuters, some government officials are phoning newlyweds asking them when their

first babies do.

Putting to one source, the government, quote, once newlyweds to be pregnant within a year,

and their target is to make a phone call every quarter.

Now, it's not hard to imagine a future in which Chinese women are required to produce

a specific number of children.

Like this is the fruit of bad idea, seeing people as a problem to be solved is wrong.

Because this is saw as saying millennia ago, babies are God's blessings.

This history shows good economics too.

With the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.