China Considers Relaxing One-Child Policy

China Considers Relaxing One-Child Policy

For 32 years, China has enforced a one-child policy to curb their booming population growth. This policy has led to a number of societal issues, many of them stemming from the desire for that one child to be male. This desire has led to the widespread abortion of female fetuses as well as infanticide, with female newborns commonly snatched from their mothers' arms and faced with an uncertain fate, even if they are permitted to live - which is by no means guaranteed.