One-child Policy

A three-layer structure held aloft by a young couple dressed in business clothes can be seen in the picture, with four older people supported in the middle and a little girl who appears relatively light-hearted standing on the top layer. The meaning behind this picture, I think, is to voice social concerns about the family support pressure coming from the one-child policy.
The stress of providing for a whole family is brought to a new level for today’s young couples although the social welfare system has been growing in sophistication. For one thing, it is the responsibility of the couple solely — with no other brothers or sisters — to provide for the previous generation, while it would have lightened the burden to a large extent if one had siblings. For another thing, the young couple  can have only one child. It means, the only child will always have the best of everything, which invisibly adding to the difficulty of child rearing. Last but not least, with the rapid development of medical treatment, if one-child policy continues, thirteen people excluding the two of them are waiting to be supported by the couple of the next generation.
As far as I am concerned, it’s better to take measures to improve one-child policy to relieve the substantially increased social contradictions.