More delay having children

A recent poll suggests many married women in Shanghai are put off having children due to low incomes and housing struggles.

Yet all 24 women interviewed by China Daily on Wednesday to gauge a response to the study said scrapping the idea of being a mother for financial reasons was unrealistic.

The Shanghai Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission, which carried out the original survey, did not reveal how many married women it talked to or what percentage said they do not want children.