China’s one-child policy was a massive social engineering project launched to slow down rapid population growth and aid ...

Ricki Mudd was born in 1993 in China during the one-child policy era. She remembers her early childhood only in fragments, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. China is abandoning its one-child policy after more than 30 years. The policy was implemented in order to curb population growth, but it has had unintended ...

The decades-long one-child policy in China has not only left the legacy of an ageing population, but also a set of strict adoption laws that have denied large numbers of abandoned children the ...

China’s one-child policy, which lasted from 1980 to 2015, significantly shaped the nation’s demographics. While it effectively curbed population growth—preventing an estimated 400 million ...

After consulting the experts at the time, they made the decision to implement the one-child policy. In a 2005 article for The China Quarterly, anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh describes the process ...

After nearly four decades of its one-child policy, designed to curb population growth and reform the country’s economy, China has fully removed all childrearing limits in recent years.

In 1979 China introduced a one-child per family policy to reduce population growth. The Chinese government estimates the one-child policy prevented around 400 million births but it was widely ...

In the 1980s, Beijing imposed a strict "one-child policy" as overpopulation fears mounted. The rule was only ended in 2016.