"If your parents want to have a second child and ask your opinion, what would you say?"
This is a test question allegedly posed to third grade students at a school in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, that has since touched a nerve on social media, especially among youth struggling with China's newly relaxed family planning policy.
Following China's decision to scrap the long-standing one-child policy in January, for many the question seemed to hit close to home.
"If you're busy with work and grandma refuses to take care of her, what will you do?" wrote one student.
"If something bad happen to me, you wouldn't try hard to save me because you'll think 'It's ok. Even if one dies, we still have another," wrote another.
Others took the chance to show their uninformed preferences in gender.
"I think I should have a brother ... Men are more diligent than women; men will not spend a lot of money; instead, they make money. And finally, men are stronger than women and they do not get sick easily."
Ever since China began allowing qualifying couples to have a second child in 2011, cases have surfaced of children protesting their new siblings, some of which end in tragedy.
A 14-year-old boy from Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, was arrested for murdering his infant sister with an axe.
The boy told police he had no remorse because he hated his parents for giving all their love to his sister, media reported.
