There’s a lot of uncertainty about the future, and the Chinese zodiac helps people decide whether they are ready to have a child, Goodkind adds. The world was coming out of the 1973-74 oil crisis just in time to conceive for births in 1976, a Year of the Dragon, and Chinese communities outside Mainland China may have tried to create or revive Chinese traditions that were under threat on the Mainland during the Cultural Revolution. Parents began to focus on child quality instead of child quantity. Modern contraceptive methods became more widely available. He offers several reasons for why this phenomenon has developed. They looked at me like, ‘Are you crazy? Why are you asking me this question? It doesn’t relate to what I do,’” says Goodkind. But they didn’t know what I was talking about. “When I did my fieldwork, I interviewed some feng shui guys … because I thought that maybe (they) were giving parents this advice.
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