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China May Drop 1-Baby Law

Officials want more girls, but fear triggering baby boom

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 29, 2008 7:32 AM CST

(Newser) – China, faced with an aging population and too few women, may end its controversial one- child-per-family policy. The law that allowed urban couples only one child and rural families two is credited with preventing 400 million births over three decades. But cultural preferences for males...   Read full story »

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