Who Controls the Family? – Philip P. Pan
From the Washington Post: A crowd of disheveled villagers was waiting when Chen Guangcheng stepped out of the car. More women than men among them, a mix of desperation and hope on their faces, they...
View ArticleHunan Publicizes List of VIPs with Second Wives and/or Too Many Kids – Red Net
With full names missing, Hunan provincial family planning agency made public a list of cadres, officials and other celebrities who have broken the law of birt control and/or have kept mistresses,...
View ArticleAlmost 200 Family Planning Slogans to be Promoted – China News Online
China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission has just released a list of new slogans that are recommended for local branches to use. This is a recent effort of the agency to clean up...
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China Bans Crude Birth Control Slogans – Alexa Olesen
In addition to distributing a list of slogans that promote China’s one-child policy, officials have banned what they deem to be “offensive” birth control slogans. From the Boston Globe: China has...
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China Says One-child Policy Helps Protect Climate – Alister Doyle
From Reuters: China says its one-child policy has helped the fight against global warming by avoiding 300 million births, the equivalent of the population of the United States. But delegates at U.N....
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View ArticleFamily Claims Shandong Woman Killed During Forced Abortion
While forced abortions and sterilisations are illegal in China, they persist as authorities struggle to keep local births within strict central government quotas. The Guardian’s Tania Branigan reports...
View ArticleBirth Rate & Bachelor Blues
Wang Ling at chinadialogue describes concerns over the accuracy of China’s birth rate figures, expressed as its Total Fertility Rate: the average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime....
View ArticleHow to Balance the Gender Scale
In Fuzhou, the local Food and Drug Administration recently began requiring “real name registration” from women who request emergency contraceptives. The registration process will require government...
View ArticleIs Chen Guangcheng “Pro-Life”?
Chen Guangcheng’s work against forced abortions and sterilisations began in 2005, nine years after his first foray into legal activism. It landed him on the 2006 TIME 100 list and in six years of...
View ArticleMore Than 300M Abortions Under One-Child Policy
Amid the reorganization of the agency that oversees the one-child policy, some critics are questioning whether the policy will be relaxed or eliminated completely. Due to the enforcement of the...
View ArticleOne-Child Policy to Change in New Year
The Chinese government’s plan to ease its one-child policy in the beginning of next year will allow couples to have two children if either of the parents is an only child. From Reuters: Changes to...
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