The on-going Third Plenary Session of 18th CPC Central Committee has handed down several important decisions recently. One of them involves the relaxation of the one-child policy to spur China's population growth. Xinhua has a good report. An excerpt is provided below: BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- China will loosen its decades-long one-child population policy, allowing … [Read more...] about China Will Relax its One-Child Policy to Increase its Population Growth
One Child Policy
“Unnatural Selection: Missing Girls, Abortion, and the Perversion of Choice”
I highly recommend heading over to the Shanghai Scrap blog where American writer Adam Minter interviews his friend, Mara Hvistendahl, who has just published the book, "Unnatural Selection: Missing Girls, Abortion, and the Perversion of Choice." To give you an idea of the conversation, I have excerpted a question below. You might want the book too. Scrap: Focusing on China … [Read more...] about “Unnatural Selection: Missing Girls, Abortion, and the Perversion of Choice”