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NEWS ABOUT: one child policy

one child policy stories: 12 news summaries

(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 Mail. As a result, Shanghai... More »

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China • parents • Shanghai • one child policy



 1-Dog Rule Gnaws on Chinese 

Owners refuse to give up pooches, despite crackdown

Aug 17, 09 9:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Guangzhou residents have gotten used to the one-child rule, but they’re drawing a line in the sand when it comes to their city’s new one-dog policy, ABC News reports. Most are ignoring or evading the month-old rule. “I’ll definitely not give up on my dogs, because... More »

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China • one child policy • Guangzhou • dog

(Newser) - Chinese families are unplugging Internet-addicted loved ones and shipping them off to boot camps, Radio Free Netherlands reports. The Internet Rehabilitation Centre of the People’s Liberation Army, which houses some 50 patients, is one of thousands of online addiction clinics around the country. "They don't only have psychological... More »

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China • People's Liberation Army • one child policy • Internet addiction

 Runaway Brides 
 Scam Desperate 
 Chinese Bachelors 

Surplus of men inspires fraudsters to make off with rural families' 'bride prices'

Jun 5, 09 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - China's one-child policy may have birthed a rising number of pretty and fleet-footed criminals, the Wall Street Journal reports. The traditional preference for boys has caused a surplus of tens of millions of men of marriageable age, mostly in rural areas, and some villages are being scammed by women who... More »

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China • marriage • scam • brides • one child policy

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 Chinese Adoption: 
 Anguish Along With Joy 

One woman's reflections on life with her adopted daughter

Aug 19, 08 12:46 PM CDT
(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... More »

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China • Chinese • foreign adoptions • one child policy

China to Reverse Sterilization for Quake Parents

Couples who abided by one-child policy can get free surgery

Jun 6, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

 China Races to Clear 
 Quake-Dammed Rivers 

Rainy season threatens to compound damage

May 26, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Quake Grief Compounded for Single-Child Chinese Families

Loss of child is devastating for those who followed one-child policy

May 15, 08 9:26 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

China Hangs Onto 1-Child Policy

Country fears growth boom if rule is rescinded

Mar 10, 08 6:16 PM CDT
(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,... More »

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

China May Drop 1-Baby Law

Officials want more girls, but fear triggering baby boom

Feb 29, 08 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 has also created a troubling... More »

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China • birth rate • population control • one child policy • University College London • fines • National Population and Family Planning Commission • Institute of Child Health • family planning law

Chinese Divorce Rate Surges

Simplified procedures, one-child policy may be factors

Jan 25, 08 3:00 PM CST
(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... More »

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China • divorce • one child policy • divorce rate

China Faces Baby Boomlet

Echoes of relaxed one-child rule, healthy economy will manifest soon

Dec 14, 07 4:31 PM CST
(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... More »

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

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