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China Rethinking One-Child Policy

By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 22, 2009 12:09 PM CDT

(Newser) – Visit Shanghai these days and you're likely to come across an unusual sight: More families having second children. The city—a key cog in China's economic boom—is aging fast thanks to the nation's 30-year-old one-child policy, writes Mark MacKinnon in the Toronto Globe and ... Read full story »

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