China is moving to ease restrictions on its one-child policy, Chinese policymakers announced Friday. The new rules will allow parents who are themselves only children to have two children.
Therese Hesketh told WPR in August that changes to the policy were seen in China as inevitable:
One of the strongest claims against the one-child policy has been its secondary effects on China's gender ratio. In a 2011 briefing, Valerie Hudson explained that limiting most families to having only one child resulted on average in familes having more sons than daughters:
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