Yep, agreed (I haven’t read those books, but I broadly know the story). I wasn’t trying to imply that eugenics was the main cause of the one-child policy, but the two are definitely connected. Post-1CP, the state took a really active role in controlling how and when kids were born, compulsory sterilisation (mostly of females, despite vasectomies being safer) became normalised for ‘quality and quantity’ etc.
A stronger “eugenics taboo” could plausibly have limited the scope of the policy.
Yep, agreed (I haven’t read those books, but I broadly know the story). I wasn’t trying to imply that eugenics was the main cause of the one-child policy, but the two are definitely connected. Post-1CP, the state took a really active role in controlling how and when kids were born, compulsory sterilisation (mostly of females, despite vasectomies being safer) became normalised for ‘quality and quantity’ etc.
A stronger “eugenics taboo” could plausibly have limited the scope of the policy.