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  • August 2008

    • Chinese Adoption: Anguish Along With Joy

      Vanity Fair  |  Aug 19, 08 12:46 PM CDT

      Chinese Adoption: Anguish Along With Joy

      (Newser) - A proud but troubled mother of an adopted Chinese girl is wondering how to cope. Diane Clehane grieves for the woman who was forced to give up little Madeline under China's "one child" policy, she writes in Vanity Fair . She also wonders how to explain it to Madeline without making her sad for her parents. "It was impossible to ignore the fact that I was getting a daughter because someone had been forced to give her up," she writes. More »

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      China  • Chinese  • foreign adoptions  • one child policy

  • June 2008

    • China to Reverse Sterilization for Quake Parents

      Xinhua (China)  |  Jun 6, 08 4:40 PM CDT

      China to Reverse Sterilization for Quake Parents

      (Newser) - China will send medical teams to areas hit by last month’s earthquake to reverse sterilization procedures for couples who want to have another child, Xinhua reports. The Sichuan family planning agency is providing free surgery and counseling to couples who were once sterilized in accordance with the nation's one-child policy. About 7,000 of the earthquake's fatalities were the lone children in their families. More »

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      China  • surgery  • family  • China earthquake  • reproduction  • reproductive rights  • quake  • one child policy

  • May 2008

    • China Races to Clear Quake-Dammed Rivers

      Associated Press  |  May 26, 08 12:45 PM CDT

      China Races to Clear Quake-Dammed Rivers

      (Newser) - China is struggling to clear rivers and lakes dammed with earthquake debris before the impending rainy season worsens flooding, the AP reports. In Beichuan county, 1,800 soldiers arrived today, each bearing 22 pounds of explosives to blast obstructions impeding access to a nearby lake, and helicopters are airlifting heavy equipment. But thunderstorms could strike the region today and tomorrow. More »

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      China  • flooding  • China earthquake  • Sichuan province  • one child policy

    • Quake Grief Compounded for Single-Child Chinese Families

      New York Times  |  May 15, 08 9:26 AM CDT

      Quake Grief Compounded for Single-Child Chinese Families

      (Newser) - Thousands of parents in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province are grieving for their children today and for most, the misery is particularly heart-wrenching because they have lost their only child, reports the New York Times. China's one-child policy was strictly enforced in the poor and populous province, and the quake took a heavy toll on its young as schools collapsed. More »

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      China  • earthquake  • China earthquake  • Sichuan province  • one child policy  • grief

  • March 2008

    • China Hangs Onto 1-Child Policy

      CNN  |  Mar 10, 08 6:16 PM CDT

      China Hangs Onto 1-Child Policy

      (Newser) - China will keep up its one-child policy over the next decade as nearly 200 million citizens reach child-bearing age, CNN reports. "Given such a large population base, there would be major fluctuations in population growth if we abandoned the one-child rule now," said the country's family planning minister, responding to reports that the country might consider change. More »

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      China  • fertility  • population  • birth rate  • one child policy  • overpopulation  • fines  • baby boom  • population control

  • February 2008

    • China May Drop 1-Baby Law

      Guardian (UK)  |  Feb 29, 08 7:32 AM CST

      China May Drop 1-Baby Law

      (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 has also created a troubling gender imbalance as millions of female fetuses have been aborted, reports the Guardian. More »

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      China  • birth rate  • one child policy  • fines  • University College London  • population control

  • January 2008

    • Chinese Divorce Rate Surges

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jan 25, 08 3:00 PM CST

      Chinese Divorce Rate Surges

      (Newser) - The Chinese divorce rate shot up 18.2% last year, the Guardian reports. It's not a huge surprise: Simplified divorce proceedings have contributed to the long-term trend, and the social stigma appears to have dwindled considerably. Some sociologists have an additional theory: China's one-child policy has created a generation of spoiled kids who are unable to sustain relationships as adults. More »

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      China  • divorce  • divorce rate  • one child policy

  • December 2007

    • China Faces Baby Boomlet

      Times (UK)  |  Dec 14, 07 4:31 PM CST

      China Faces Baby Boomlet

      (Newser) - China is bracing for a bumper crop of babies as kids born after the relaxation of the strict one-child policy in 1984 start their own families, the London Times reports. Strict penalties still apply to couples with more than one child, but tradition-bound and wealthy Chinese can afford to pay the price to have a son. More »

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      China  • one child policy  • overpopulation  • Generation Y  • little emperors

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