A Study On Second-child Birth Of The Rich In Rural Area

This article is a piece of empirical work which is concerned about the situation ofChina’s rural fertility, mainly elaborating the concept change of farmers’ fertility andadaptation of fertility behavior in the context of social transformation. Since the Reformand Opening Up, the economy in rural areas develops rapidly, and a group of affluenthave sprung up. Many current studies are involved with research on the rural rich, mostof which are on the field of politics and economy, with a few on the fertility behavior ofrich in rural area. I discovered that there is a big difference in fertility behavior amonggroups of different social status in the same village in my survey.This paper mainlyinvestigates the overall concept of fertility which has been transformed into modern andmechanism of second-child birth of the rich on the condition of obviously stratificationwithin the village. Logical structure of this paper: introduce the village fertility patternchanges firstly, describe the process of second-child birth pattern formation of the rich onthis basis, discuss the reasons for the rich birth the second, finally, discuss how the rich toachieves the aim of the second-birth.This article understands the fertility behavior of farmers in the background of hugesocial change, rather than use the traditional fertility concept to interpret the second-childfertility behavior of the rich. The second-child birth policy is adapted to the modern risksociety, as one of the strategies to cope with risk. What’s more, the current nationalfamily planning policy increasingly, creates a favorable external environment for the richfertility coupled with much economic resources of the rich, so the possibility of theirfertility is very large. I think people’s reproductive behavior is a product of the gamebetween emotional and economic conditions: to meet parents’ emotional needs, a child isessential. As for the second and the third birth, more people will consider economicconditions; as a result, many poor people tend to give up the second birth or considermore about their own economic conditions. Therefore, the second-birth families aremainly rich in the village.