2 Jun 2021

Chinese parents set to learn a lot about sibling rivalry

From Morning Report, 8:56 am on 2 June 2021

Rivalries, fights over toys, different bedtimes, playing favourites and divided attentions.

It's going to be new terrain for Chinese parents who have grown up without siblings under China's one child policy - and are now being told they can have up to three children.

This comes after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates.

China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit.

Corin Dann spoke to Dr Dougal Sutherland from Victoria University's School of Psychology.