I&#x27;d say more difference than connection. China is facing a terrifying &#x27;demographic cliff&#x27; due to the previous 1 child policy, much more so than western nations. This also skewed gender towards males in the Chinese Gen Y cohort (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;story&#x2F;story.php?storyId=89572563" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;story&#x2F;story.php?storyId=8957256...</a>).<p>Similar story is rural India; lots of &#x27;missing women&#x27; from the population. In both cases, the first born son is&#x2F;was culturally expected to be the &#x27;old age pension fund&#x27; of the parents, whereas girls were considered financial liabilities until they could be married off (i.e. someone else&#x27;s problem).<p>The very disturbing implication being: if you can only have 1 child, and you believe only boys can support you in retirement, what do you do when you give birth and find out it&#x27;s a girl?