Despite ending the one-child policy, China's traditional family structure is shrinking from economic pressures and cultural shifts, says economist Nancy Qian. BEIJING: News stories about China nowadays largely focus on geopolitical developments, particularly the Sino-American rivalry . But China’s 1.4 billion people, while aware of these issues, are more preoccupied with a problem that hits much closer to home: their shrinking families. For millennia, Confucian values have defined the family as