The report prompted calls from Chinese social media users for the government to remove restrictions on single parenting, while feminists pointed to a growing unwillingness among women to comply with patriotic demands that they marry and have families.
"If there aren't enough babies being born, then they need to normalize single parenthood," user @Xunyifeng said on the social media platform Weibo.com. "Two women could even raise kids together as family, with their [female] lovers, or even two straight women with no sexual relationship, and the kids could take their mothers' surname," the user wrote.
