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1. An imbalance of sexes. 2. TFR dropped from 2.9 in 1979 to 1.7 in 2004. 3. An increase of proportion of elderly people. 4. Too few people to support the increased proportion of elderly people. 5. Prevented the births of an estimated 400 million people. 6. Because urban areas follow the policy more strictly than the rural areas, the rural area population is growing much faster. This means that it is harder to provide education to the large rural population. 7. Families with limited resources who have fewer kids are able to provide more resources compared to those who have more.
 * About 120 males to 100 females at birth
 * Abortion, neglect, and infanticide are used primarily on female infants.
 * Not every Chinese male is going to be able to marry
 * A shortage of women is predicted to cause an increase of trafficking and kidnapping of women.

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/vol26/26GSJ20i.html http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/353/11/1171.pdf