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Posted in Asia on May 28th, 2008
I posted an article about China lifting the one-child policy for parents whose children died when their schools collapsed in the May 12 earthquake here. One idea floated by the author was that this would calm parents upset over the poorly constructed schools. Looks like it didn’t.
According to this New York Times article, [...]
Posted in Asia on May 28th, 2008
A few weeks ago I posted about how the earthquake in China had left many parents childless when their only children were killed. Now, according to this New York Times article, China has lifted the one-child policy for “parents whose only child was killed or grievously injured in the May 12 earthquake.”
Is the Chinese [...]
Posted in Asia on May 15th, 2008
We’ve all heard about the children crushed beneath their school buildings after the earthquake in China this week. Many of those children were only children, whose parents kept to China’s one-child policy and who are now left childless. CNN.com looks at how the one-child policy may be compounding parents’ grief as the bodies are [...]
Posted in Asia on Apr 9th, 2008
With fines for having more than one child, parental pressure to marry and a culture with little stigma for abortion, the issue of single motherhood has mostly been absent from China’s public forum. Now a single journalist is blogging to her unborn child in Beijing, and the comments left on her site both hint [...]
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