China’s decades-old one-child policy, which was initiated at the end of 1979, helped reduce the population of the world’s most populous country by an official 30 million, but has also brought about discrimination against only children when they hunt for work on the cutthroat employment market. Several companies at the fair turned only children down because the companies believed that students from cities and only children cannot endure the hardships incurred in the process of work. A professor said the phenomenon has a popular nickname, the ‘only-child syndrome’. 

Nowadays, only children are supposed to be the symbols of bad spirit and habit. They cannot endure the hardships incurred in the process of work; they are prone to be effeminate and overconfident; they are inclined to hop from job to job when faced with hardship and fail to adapt to the surrounding environment. In other words, they’re not popular in the job market because many companies attach more importance to strong will and vitality to conquer hardships. As there goes an old saying” Rome was not built in a day”, the influence of one-child policy on job hunting has been through a long period. The policy has led parents to dote on their children, cultivating little princes and princesses across the nation, which will definitely do great harm to the forming of children’s value and characters.

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