" Being able to have a second child brings happiness and sorrows to traditional Chinese families. Photo: IC When Liu Yan's husband tried to persuade her to give birth to another baby by offering her a new car as a reward Nike Air Max 90 Ultra Moire Scontate , she could not control her rage, and a fierce quarrel between the couple broke out, again.
""What am I to him? I am not a machine to produce babies!"" she fumed.
Liu's husband is desperate to have another child. In his eye, mothers' lives should be centered on the home, and his salary is high enough to afford to raise two children comfortably. However, Liu, 34 Nike Air Max 90 Ultra Essential Scontate , who is raising a four-year-old boy and is ready to shift the focus of her life from family to career, is reluctant to have another child.
The Chinese government recently scrapped the country's three-decade one-child policy. Now that every couple are allowed to have two children, the news, like a double-edged sword, brought happiness and sorrows to traditional Chinese families.
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A husband from Shanghai has filed for divorce against his wife, because she refuses to give birth to a second child. The couple has been married for 10 years, and they raised a daughter, the Shanghai Morning Post reported in 2014.
In order to raise her first child, Liu quit her job as a vice president in a listed company and became a full-time mother. As the boy grew up, Liu found an easier job in order to better take care of her son. Now she is preparing for becoming the woman she wants to be, ""an iron lady Nike Air Max 90 Fiori Scontate ,"" and pursuing a challenging life in the workforce with long hours. When her husband suggested she have another baby, and even enrolled their son to put pressure on her, she felt depressed and kept quarreling with him.
""My husband told me that our son wants a younger sister, but I know that the boy doesn't even know what having a sister means,"" she said. ""If I am going to have a new baby, I will probably be a housewife for the rest of my life. I could not live with that,"" said Liu Nike Air Max 90 Leather Scontate , adding that the constant fights have already affected their relationship.
Like Liu, Zhang Li, 34, also has felt stressed out over pressure to have a second child. Zhang has been devoted most of her money, and energy to her son for seven years. ""Now that my boy is more independent, I finally have a chance to spend more time with my husband,"" she said. However Nike Air Max 90 Essential Scontate , her husband's insistence on having a second child threw their harmonious life out of balance.
It's not always women who are reluctant to have a second child. Zhang Wei, 37, a five-year-old boy's father, has been arguing with his wife. He said that he having a second child will put the family under too much economic pressure. ""My wife loves children and her family believe that more children bring more blessings. But I think one child is enough,""he said.
Yang Jin, a parenting expert from online maternity and babycare service Babytree, said that in China Nike Air Max 90 Bianche Scontate , women bear huge pressure when raising a baby. ""Some have refused to have a second one due to the fear of destroying their normal life and going through the hardship of raising a child again,"" she said.
""Even if the couple agree to have another baby, husbands should pay more attention to their wives' emotions and help them conquer their psychological barriers,"" she said.
Yang said that love is the most important thing in marriage and having a baby is like adding a shine to their present splendor. ""Couples should respect their mutual wills and reach a consensus before having a second child. It should not be a reason for destroying their relationship,"" she added.
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Chen said that Didi's goal is to make trip quality better. Better trips means less waiting time when getting a taxi as well as a smooth ride and a pleasant mood during the trip. Didi intends to ease big cities' traffic congestion by reducing people's desire to own a car in the emerging ""shared economy"" of collaborative consumption.
""We should use the interconnected resources of traffic conditions to guide drivers away from congestion using our 'smart traffic cloud,' and make the most of these resources; each disconnected driver does not know how to choose a route,"" said Chen.
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""City-level dispatches are the only way to solve traffic congestion,"" said Chen, who also noted that ""data from different online map services did not show that traffic conditions in many cities worsened because of Didi,"" refuting such accusations.
Didi has visibly changed the way people use taxi services by matching passengers' requests with taxi drivers' willingness. Additionally Nike Air Max 90 Donne Scontate , it helps taxi drivers improve their income by increasing the number of their rides and reducing their idle time.
Didi takes up more than 90 percent of the market share in terms of taxi-hailing Apps, after merging with Kuaidi in February of this year. The App is also seen to be in direct conflict with its foreign competitor Uber, which has already been banned in many cities both in China and abroad.
While the public claims that Didi is creating a monopoly, Chen insis