Parents who comply with the One-Child Policy receive money from the government in addition to their free healthcare. Adults in Chinese society worried that having so many only children would cause a new generation of spoiled and selfish children. However, Chinese culture stresses the values of self-discipline, control, conformity, and working towards the common cause. These values do not support or condone catering to children and parents were actually not likely to spoil their children. The government also set up numerous early education programs to help avoid the spoiled child syndrome.
Children attend nursery school and day-care programs from a very early age.
These programs enforce working together and do not individually spoil the children. The One-Child Policy dramatically reduced the number of births in China. Chinese families were traditionally large. The current rate of births is down to 1.8 children per woman. However, there are still many over-quota births especially in rural areas.