在许多儿童婚姻的案例中，女孩被许配给大龄男人以期得到嫁妆为回报，或者是由于习俗，父亲在孩提时代便允诺子女的婚姻。

In many child marriages, girls are given away to older men in return for dowries or following the custom by which a father promises his daughters and sons to marriage while still children.

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当然，时代变了，婴儿死亡率已接近于零。而独生子女又是怎样看待这一问题的呢？

Times, of course, have changed and infant mortality has largely been eradicated. So what do only children themselves say?

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去年夏天，由上海市从1979年以来所作出的官员建议夫妇多生育子女的忠告，是划时代的第一次。

The move last summer by the city of Shanghai marked the first time since 1979 that officials have exhorted couples to have more offspring.

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