The sad plight of China's left-behind children
China's decision to end its one-child policy will probably complicate an already difficult situation for children who are left behind when their parents migrate to cities in search of work.
One-child policy didn't give China too many boys
Research suggests that it was China's liberalizing economic reforms of the 1970s and 1980s that might have been responsible for today's heavily skewed gender ratio in favor of boys.
Wanted: brides for millions of Chinese men
A fast-growing underclass is sure to pose an array of challenges for China. The victims are the millions of poor, mostly rural men, who cannot meet familial and social expectations that a man marry and start a family because of the country's skewed demographics.
Ending China's one-child policy: too little, too late?
China's population is going to drop even with the relaxation of its one-child policy.
President Xi Jinping announced Friday the most sweeping package of economic, social and legal reforms in China in decades, including a relaxation of the country's "one-child" policy and the scrapping of its much-criticized system of labor camps, The changes rolled back harsh social policies that ...
China's one-child policy, implemented to prevent overpopulation and raise living standards, will likely negatively impact China's future economic growth.
China may relax one-child policy to let more couples have second child
China is studying whether to relax its one-child policy to allow more couples to have two children, the official Xinhua News Agency has reported, citing the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Policymakers are considering a change that would allow a second baby if either ...
