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China’s ‘one-child policy’ left at least 1 million bereaved parents childless and alone in old age, with no one to take care of them

A child’s death is devastating to all parents. But for Chinese parents, losing an only child can add financial ruin to emotional devastation. That’s one conclusion of a research project on parental ...
History Snob on MSN

The One-Child Policy: Why China Stopped Its Citizens From Growing Their Families

Angela Roma on PexelsFor decades, China enforced one of the most controversial population control measures in modern history.
Wall Street Journal

China’s One-Child Economic Disaster

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Imago/Zuma Press Chinese Finance Minister Lan Foan disappointed investors in a press ...
The American Spectator

China’s Demographic Crisis Is Worse Than Reported

In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party devised an artful strategy to replace the United States as the world’s superpower by 2049. But after more than three decades of a draconian one-child policy and a ...
VnExpress International on MSN

China to impose tax on condoms in effort to reverse declining birth rate

China will impose a 13% tax on condoms and other contraceptives starting next year, ending a three-decade tax-exemption ...
Publishers Weekly

International Adoption, Child-Trafficking, and China’s One Child Policy: PW Talks with Barbara Demick

In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, the journalist profiles twins separated as toddlers by China’s one-child policy and examines America’s demand for international adoptees. How brutally was China’s one ...
CNN

China used to fine couples for having too many babies. Now it can’t pay them enough

Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li ...
Wall Street Journal

China’s Once-Unwanted Daughters Have Grown Up—and Now They Shun Motherhood

Soon after Simona Dai was born in 1992 in rural China, she was sent to live with a foster family, hidden away so her parents could hold out for a son. Driving that decision was the country’s one-child ...
Newsweek

China Abandons One-Child Policy

China is abandoning its one-child policy, state-run news agency Xinhua has announced. The agency cited a communique issued on Thursday by the ruling Communist Party of China which said that all ...
Time

China to Ease One-Child Policy and Abolish Labor Camps

China will loosen its policy limiting most families to one child, a system to slow population growth that has been in place for three decades. The country’s official Xinhua News Agency said Friday ...
The Atlantic

The Connection Between China's One-Child Policy and Its Housing Bubble

China’s one-child policy, which since 1979 has limited most Chinese couples to a single child, is notorious for having accelerated the rate of China’s aging. It’s also created a glut of young men who ...