economy - Year of the pig: after the weddings, the kids

Market researchers and journalists have one thing in common: very often you do not have to look very far to find interesting subjects. Shaun Rein documents the market expectation for kids in 2007, after 2006 saw a boom in marriages. Shanghai saw 162, 663 couples, an increase of 62 percent over 2005.
Material he had enough: his son is due in the year of the Golden Pig and his colleague Natalie Zhu got married last weekend! Congratulations, Natalie. She is now broke and is in urgent need of her bonus. That might even become more urgent when she will get her baby too.
Shaun counts the cost of a Shanghai marriage.