How China's One-Child Policy Forced Starbucks To Rethink Its Beijing Stores

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By Jacqueline Detwiler

The effects of China’s one-child policy are manifold. Studies show people raised under the program are less trusting, men are unable to find mates, and then there's the "4-2-1" phenomenon, where working young people must assume financial responsibility for themselves, their parents, and four grandparents. The policy has likely had the strongest impact on a nation’s demographics of any social initiative, save genocide, in history. Read the rest HERE