Three Decades of China's One Child Policy
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The Chinese regime will mark 30 years of its one-child policy on Saturday. It's a controversial law that limits many couples to one child. Those who violate it can face stiff fines, a salary cut, or even forced abortion. The policy was implemented in 1980 out of fears that a rising population would be bad for society and the economy. Farming families are allowed a second child if their first was a girl. Ethnic minorities and couples where both are only children are also exempt. By some estimates, China today has 400 million fewer people than it would without the one-child policy. But critics say it's led couples to abort or abandon female babies, due to a cultural preference for boys, causing a severe gender imbalance. And enforcing the law has often been violent, involving forced late-term abortions and sterilizations. Authorities are now grappling with the problems of an aging population with too few young people to support it. |
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