Editing One-child policy (section)

===Healthcare improvements===
The one-child policy contributed to China's decrease in maternal and child mortality.<ref name=":92">{{Cite book |last=Klára |first=Dubravčíková |title=Contemporary China: a New Superpower? |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-03-239508-1 |editor-last=Kironska |editor-first=Kristina |chapter=Living Standards and Social Issues |editor-last2=Turscanyi |editor-first2=Richard Q.}}</ref>{{Rp|page=66}}

It is reported that the focus of China on population planning has helped to provide better healthcare for women and a reduction in the risks of death and injury associated with pregnancy. Women and children were eligible for preferential hospital treatment. At family planning offices, women received free contraception and prenatal classes that contributed to the policy's success in two respects. First, the average Chinese household has expended fewer resources, both in terms of time and money, on children, giving many more money to invest. Second, since Chinese adults would no longer rely on children to care for them in their old age, there has been an impetus to save money for the future.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Naughton |first=Barry |url=https://archive.org/details/chineseeconomytr0000naug |title=The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth |date=2007 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0262640640 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |url-access=registration}}</ref>