Legacy of the One-Child Policy: Marriage Dilemmas in Urban and Rural China

China’s one-child policy, the family planning policy enforced in 1980, continued for almost 36 years and created a lasting impact on both declining total fertility rate (TFR) its sex ratio imbalance. This paper discusses marriage dilemma caused by separate outcomes urban rural areas. In areas, expense childbearing, equated monthly installment (EMI) payments, self-consuming nature of contributed to as well TFR. settings, surplus single men due entrenched “son preference” demand bride-trafficking market, an industry purchasing bride form property. this paper, I conclude that crisis side effects are legacies Chinese government needs craft effective approaches addressing these problems.