one-child policy

Southern Weekend reported that the case had drawn more attention than any other since the launch of the one-child policy.

Correspondents say the one-child policy is not always strictly enforced and the worst that violators normally expect is a fine.

China's one-child policy is a bit of a misnomer.

Some claims are, frankly, mad: a leaflet given out in Cork claims that Lisbon would let the EU bring in a Chinese-style one-child policy.

Economists say it's the result of a rapidly aging population after 40 years of the one-child policy.

The trend has been discernible for a while, as the effects of an aging population and China's one-child policy kick in.

So far , our government has taken many measures to control the population. One is known as the one-child policy.

Getting rid of the one-child policy now would create more problems than it would solve, he said.

If he had put in place a two-child policy in the fifties, today's one-child policy would not be necessary.

No, they sell the children to wealthier families who want a child. I saw a report about it, it, s a way to bypass the one child policy.

'China's one-child policy is gruesome and barbaric, ' he said in a statement.

The one-child policy is not the sole cause, as India shows, but it has contributed to it.

I am aware of that. The one child policy would be less of a problem if people were more willing to keep their girls.

In cases where the couple has had children, that sense of cold pragmatism, combined with the one-child policy, results in custody disputes.

In the far west and Inner Mongolia, the provinces do not really operate a one-child policy at all.

Despite China's "one-child" policy, parents in urban areas are allowed to have two offspring if they are both only children.

As rural Chinese, they were permitted by China's strict one-child policy to try for a second child.

The time, then, has come for the one-child policy to be phased out, and the Sichuan quake, and its grieving families, could be the catalyst.

Even before the one child policy, Chinese fertility had already halved as a result of an earlier policy to delay and space births.

The number of dependent children will remain low because China's one-child policy of the late 1970s is still broadly in place.

A change in the one-child policy would help sustain China. s population growth in the long run and improve its demographic structure.

For the young women I met in Nanjing and Shanghai, even the draconian one-child policy of the last 30 years has an aspect of liberation.

Adopting a second child is one of the few exceptions to China's one-child policy.

And the state, of course, its authority flows into lot of other areas as we are familiar with, with something like the one-child policy.

As the first generation of single children (the one-child policy came into effect in 1979), they "take everything for granted" .

Theirs is a generation of only children, the result of China's one-child policy, and one that has known only uninterrupted growth.

"Given the clear long-term population trend, the one-child policy won't continue for too long, I hope, " he said.

And China's one-child policy can only be part of the problem, given that so many other countries are affected.

So far so good, but then Mr. Biden, a pro-choice Catholic, had to weigh in on the wisdom of the one-child policy.

Ms. Li takes subtle aim, for instance, at the country's one-child policy, put in place in 1980.

The adoptions, or even a future birth to a family that adopts an orphan, will not face the limitations of the one-child policy.

The country's seemingly inexhaustible pool of cheap labor is expected to peak in 2014, in part due to its rigid one-child policy.

China's "one-child" policy, initiated a generation ago to curb population growth, has begun to restrict the supply of labor.

China instituted a one-child policy in 1979 to constrain population growth and foster prosperity for the next generation.

China's one child policy seems draconian but it was a necessary and foresighted move.

The description of the system as a "one-child policy" is misleading.

And what about the tens of millions of surplus men that China has wrought with its One Child Policy and preference for sons?

The one-child policy has fulfilled the goal initially set. Negative effects will pile up if it continues.

With financial support from the state gradually disappearing, China's one-child policy has already led to major problems.

Along the shopping boulevards of Shanghai and Beijing, perhaps the most pernicious impact of the one-child policy soon becomes apparent.

The one-child policy has always been controversial abroad and unpopular at home.

She was born in 1988, an only child in a nation with a one-child policy.

If we study a little what has happened in the world, we will see that it's not the one-child policy which has made China richer.

With its fertility artificially suppressed by the one-child policy, it is ageing at an unprecedented rate.

If you are a male, your chance is slim, since the one child policy does not affect you.

Under what conditions were local "exceptions" made to the one child policy? Were local changes in these exceptions rare or common?

Anchor: Chinese lawmakers are now said to be debating whether to drop the decades old one-child policy.

One of the purposes of China's one-child policy is to improve child wellbeing.

Thanks in large part to its one-child policy, China certainly has a less restive population.

Officials are considering an easing of the one-child policy, which could help as well.

But Chinese officials do not dispute that the one-child policy has played a role.

A senior family-planning official said in 2007 that in effect the one-child policy applied to less than 40% of the population.

Like more developed economies, China's population is graying, a trend exacerbated by the one-child policy since the late 1970s.

Paul: Yes. . . and take what they say about the one-child-policy and human rights. . . you know that Japanese student, Mariko?

The results are compared with the UN Population Division's central scenario for the country, which reflects the existing one-child policy.

This is widely seen as the beginning of the controversial one-child policy.

That's right, part of enforcing the one-child policy involves making sure women have abortions should they get pregnant a second time.

The available records are scanty so it is hard to be sure, but the influence of Westerners on the one-child policy seems modest.

How it will stand up as the economy matures and faces the adverse demographics inflicted by the one -child policy is another matter .

"China's one-child policy is gruesome and barbaric, " former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a 2012 contender, said Tuesday in a statement.

Liang Zhongtang, architect of the Shanxi experiment, says he thinks lifting the one child policy would have little impact.

China's one-child policy formulated in 1979 has been a disaster.

In China, thanks in part to its one-child policy, the working population has already begun to contract.

Population Control: China's "one child" policy since the late 70s is estimated to have resulted in 400 million less births by 2010.

Additional underlying factors are a deeply rooted cultural preference for sons, a falling fertility rate, and the one-child policy.

Women lured from Myanmar to China fill a gap created by this country's one-child policy and cultural preference for sons.

China's one- child policy has undermined the safety net that the elderly normally rely on in traditional societies .

China's one-child policy alone will lead to a demographic catastrophe in two decades.

Another concern of Chinese scholars was the gender imbalance primarily caused by the one-child policy.

And also because China started the one-child policy in 1980, none of us, except twins, grew up with brothers and sisters.

after it introduced its one-child policy, China is keeping its promise, allowing only-children who marry each other to have a second child.

Yes, I think there is a connection to be made between the one-child-policy and the current, seemingly uncontrollable, housing bubbles.

The first children born under the one-child policy face the prospect of caring for an ever-increasing number of pensioners.

Population control through the one-child policy was implemented by fines, harassment and forced abortions.

Elsewhere a traditional preference for boys, combined with the one-child policy, has resulted in widespread abortions of baby girls.

The supply of young workers is slowing as a result of the country's "one child" policy instituted in 1979.

The labour force in the developing world (minus China with its one-child policy) is set to increase by 50% by 2050.

With China's one child policy, little emperors are more than little empresses.

China's one-child policy brings the ultimate demographic dividend but probably makes the country the most bubble-prone in modern times.

Having twins is one of the few ways to have a second child that is allowed by the One Child policy.

China faces a steady decline in its workforce beginning mid this decade, thanks to the One Child Policy.

Many rural families violate the nation's one-child policy and often turn down hospital care for fear of repercussion.

CONTROVERSIAL when it began a generation ago, China's one-child policy is stirring yet more contention.

Now with "One Child Policy" this clearly has backfired for China. No worries, there are many girls on other countries!

Unlike China, India is a democracy: there is no one-child policy to blame.

China's one-child policy combined with the preference for sons has skewed the population toward males.

While China has a one-child policy, it is unevenly implemented and sometimes loosely enforced, particularly in rural areas.

The country's one-child policy limits most urban couples to a single child and rural families to two.

China is also ageing rapidly, thanks to its one-child policy.

After three decades of the one-child policy, you'd expect people here to know how to have sex without getting pregnant.

He was arguing against the one child policy to a Chinese audience.

Guangdong also has an important role in a very different method ofcircumventing the one-child policy.

The "one-child policy" is not, however, as simple as it sounds.

She had 6 children, which confirms that Uighurs were not subject to China's One Child Policy.

The country's one-child policy, introduced in 1979, has caused the growth in its labour supply to slow sharply (see chart).

One-child policy is one of the reasons since 1979.

But in China, there is a common joke that the only policy it has implemented effectively of late is the one-child policy.

China's one-child policy for the McDonald's provided a vast consumer market of children.

A victim of China's one-child policy, one father has considered selling his own life to pay a stiff fine and to sustain his family.

One answer is known as the one-child policy.

Scholars are also dismayed by the gender imbalance that has followed the one-child policy.

Lastly, a special case: China's one-child policy, which began nationwide in the early 1970s.

Employees born during and after 1980s, the products of China's one-child policy, are generally more pampered by parents and grandparents.

Players born after the one-child policy was instituted were less likely to pass money along than the older participants.

China's one child policy was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to limit communist China's population growth.

The old leadership is wedded to the one-child policy, but the new leadership, which is due to take over next year, can think afresh.

As a result of the one-child-policy fewer children are available to take care of aging parents.

The government is looking at relaxing the one-child policy to address the problem of a smaller workforce.

Even in China, with its one-child policy, the ratio of retirees to the working age population will be less than 30 per cent in 2025.

In the earliest days of the one-child policy, this sometimes meant female infanticide.

Parents who obeyed China's one-child policy whisper to their lone offspring that the family's destiny hangs on the test score.

Of course, the one child policy helps as well.

China implemented the "one-child policy" in 1979 in an effort to control population growth.

UnlikeChina, India is a democracy: there is no one-child policy to blame.

China's one-child policy has created two major demographic risks for the country.

Some see a chance to have a rare second child despite China's strict one-child policy.

China has a strict one-child policy, which the government has used to control its population growth.

If Beijing does nothing about the one-child policy, the results could be even more catastrophic than the Sichuan quake.

The one-child policy is a major cause, but development often produces sharp falls in fertility.

And even more fundamentally the country is working through the demographic shift wrought by the government's decades-old one-child policy.

A strict one-child policy, applied without exceptions countrywide, would have made an even bigger dent in China's population.

One-Child Policy has been relaxed in certain ways over the years.

The One Child Policy came about due to a population burst in the past decades.

With the one-child policy still in place, many are passionate about producing a prodigy.

"My view is they absolutely don't need it, " Mr. Kroeber said of the one-child policy.

With the one-child policy, schools and kindergartens are too frightened that kids will be hurt.

Some, the couple said, were giving birth to their second child to skirt China's one-child policy.

Chinese Gen Ys are single children born under China's one- child policy .

Most of Xinran's mothers submit stoically to the cruelties of "son preference" and the one-child policy.

Given the one-child policy and rising longevity, China will grow old before it grows wealthy.

This generation is the first to grow up under the one-child policy, rolled out in 1979.

This is largely because China's one-child policy restricts the number of young dependants a family can add.

For all its ethical problems, China's one-child policy boosts its economy.

One-Child policy will have lopside rejection had china being a democratic entity. 2.

However, China has a big problem with an aging population combined with the one child policy.

one-child policy has helped the fight against global warming by avoiding 300 million births.

We are now following the one-child policy, so most of the families have only one child.

5It is a good solution for china to carry out the one-child policy.

China introduced a one-child policy in 1979 to curb population growth and drive prosperity.

The government is reported to be considering a gradual lifting of the one-child policy from as early as 2010.

Because thanks to the one child policy they have lost everyone in their next generation.

A skewed gender ratio is another unwelcome effect of the one-child policy.

Chinese officials are fiercely attached to the one-child policy.

Mr Wang and his colleagues argue the one-child policy should go.

The demographic shift is a result of the one-child policy implemented in 1979.

But thanks to China's "one-child" policy, a newly married couple can count on the undivided support of their parents to buy a new flat.

In China, however, the problem takes on a frightfully larger scope when "son preference" meets the notorious One Child policy.

End of the one-child policy coming?

If anyone is second-guessing China's one-child policy, it's China.

Most demographers think the one-child policy has imposed huge costs on the country.

And social attitudes are changing, with many young couples now solely responsible for four parents because of China's one-child policy.

China's one-child policy has skewed the gender balance over the past three decades because of farmers' preference for boys.

There are many reasons for the government's hard-line defence of its one-child policy.

Because of the one-child policy, China's population will age faster than in the U.

There is also the added benefit of avoiding a financial penalty for breaking Beijing's one-child policy.

And without China's one-child policy, this landmark would have arrived 13 years ago.

But they can often find that even when conforming to China's One Child Policy, raising children is far more difficult than they expected.

A nurse monitors newborns in China's Hubei Province. Critics say Beijing should ease its one-child policy for demographic reasons.

Luckily, China already carried out the one-child policy to control the population.

The Chinese one child policy will make European demographic problems pale in comparison over the next 20-30 years.

Most obviously China should scrap the one-child policy.

But no sooner had we implemented the one-child policy did you allege the so-called violation of human rights.

China has the largest population, so the one-child policy was necessary.

It must, however, be remembered that the Chinese were brutal in enforcing the one-child policy.

The abortion of female fetuses is notorious in the mainland under the one-child policy.

But in the countryside, where 55% of China's population lives, there are three variants of the one-child policy.

China has a draconian one-child policy.

Xies apparent backpedaling over the weekend underscores the sensitivity of the one-child policy in China.

China's one-child policy and adoption?

The case has captivated and enraged many in China and inspired calls for Beijing to revisit the country's one-child policy.

In part because of the one-child policy, soon a single person in China will be expected to help support two parents and four grandparents.

Revoking the one-child policy would probably not make a big difference.

Where's the one child policy when her parents got drunk?

The Chinese city of Shanghai has announced a new rule modelled on the country's one-child policy.

China will get there first in 2069, 90 years after its one-child policy was implemented.

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A personal one-child policy?

Will China's one-child policy change in 2010?

Chinese fertility was falling for decades before the one-child policy took effect in 1979.

Since the one-child policy was enacted in the late 70s, the government hasn't made domestic adoption easy.

Many women born under the one-child policy implemented in the late 1970s are now becoming mothers.

The government could yet salvage the situation by loosening its one-child policy.

China's one-child policy shrunk the average size of a family to 3. 1 people from 3. 4 people.

Officials suggest it'll be a long time before the one-child policy is dropped nationwide.

The problem is exacerbated by China's one-child policy, which will see the percentage of the population that is working peak in about 2010.

Because of China's one-child policy, the supply of workers under 40 has dwindled by as much as a fifth.

Because of the one-child policy, now most families have only one child.

Because of its one-child policy, from 2015 its population will begin to age.

In 1973 in China, the one-child policy started to be in practice nationwide.

When the one-child policy started in the 1970s, Liu says, women in Henan gave birth to an average of 5. 8 children in their lifetimes.

After three decades, the drawbacks of the one-child policy are more and more apparent.

But its population isagingageing rapidly, largely because of the one-child policy.

This generation is the first to grow up under the one-child policy.

In China there has been an historical preference for male children, virtually institutionalized by the one-child policy in 1979.

The one-child policy, for example, saves 1. 83 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year according to official estimates.

The country's one-child policy has meant that more boys than girls are born in China.

On the other hand, I can't imagine what China would be like if there weren't a one-child policy!

This is how most westerners learn about the one child policy, which is much like how Chinese learn about America's gun laws.

But they also say clashes with public policy are inevitable: no Christian, one argues, should accept the one-child policy, for example.

Green is interested in China's one child policy.

In China the one-child policy increases that pressure further.

So how are they different? First of all, most of them were born in the 80s and 90s, under the one-child policy.

This guy is a repeat offender; he has two kids. The Chinese have a one child policy! !

Remember, in China, the ratio between men and women is roughly around 1. 7 to 1, a legacy in part of the "one child policy. "

That's because of the one-child policy, is that right?

The one-child policy has been in place for three decades.

The one-child policy is not just a human-rights abomination; it has also worsened a demographic problem

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