{"id":83088,"date":"2026-01-03T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83088"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:00:37","slug":"china-taxes-condoms-and-cuts-childcare-costs-to-boost-countrys-plummeting-birth-rate-after-decades-of-one-child-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/03\/china-taxes-condoms-and-cuts-childcare-costs-to-boost-countrys-plummeting-birth-rate-after-decades-of-one-child-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"China taxes condoms and cuts childcare costs to boost country&#8217;s plummeting birth rate &#8211; after decades of one-child policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/01\/03\/09\/105197389-15430901-image-a-1_1767434071466.jpg\" alt=\"China will slap a new tax on condoms while cutting childcare costs from January 1 in a fresh bid to reverse its plunging birth rate - decades after enforcing the one-child policy (stock image)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-7ca20850-e88a-11f0-955a-eb6b1ae68375\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/china\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">China<\/a><\/span> will slap a new tax on condoms while cutting childcare costs from January 1 in a fresh bid to reverse its plunging birth rate &#8211; after decades pf enforcing the one-child policy.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15430901\/China-taxes-condoms-cuts-childcare-costs.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>China will slap a new tax on condoms while cutting childcare costs from January 1 in a fresh bid to reverse its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/china-population2.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83089,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83088\/revisions\/83089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}