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NEWS ABOUT: one-child policy

one-child policy stories: 4 news summaries

(Newser) - The devastation is still raw from the earthquake that snuffed out thousands of young lives in rural China a year ago, reports the Los Angeles Times, but many grieving parents have found new hope in the form of another baby. More than 10% of new mothers in one Sichuan Province... More »

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China • birth control • birth rate • population control • Sichuan province • China earthquake • one-child policy

 Boys Outnumber Girls 
 in China by 32M 

Sex ratio poses looming security concerns

Apr 11, 09 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - China's one-child policy has left the nation with 32 million more boys than girls under the age of 20, a new study says. The greatest imbalance is among kids ages 1 to 4, which likely means bigger problems down the road, the New York Times reports. Researchers said China could... More »

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China • baby • gender gap • sex ratio • one-child policy • boy

 Quake-Bereft Chinese 
 Sow New Baby Boom 

Parents who lost state-mandated only child rush to conceive again

Dec 4, 08 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Some parents who lost their state-mandated only child in China’s May earthquake—which crushed at least 19,000 students under shoddy school buildings—are rushing to conceive again, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Chinese government announced an exemption from its one-child policy for such victims, and more than... More »

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China • children • parents • Sichuan province • China earthquake • one-child policy

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China's One-Child Policy Leads to Nation of Angry Men

Huge gender imbalance spurs skyrocketing crime rate

Jun 28, 08 7:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - China’s got a big problem, one of its own making. The nation's one-child policy, now 30 years old, has resulted in a land of angry, testosterone-filled young men unable to find wives, writes Mara Hvistendahl in the New Republic. Finally worried about the world's biggest gender imbalance and its... More »

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China • Beijing • infant mortality • violence • Communism • young men • one-child policy

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