For decades, China enforced one of the most controversial population control measures in modern history. The one-child policy was the law, backed by fines, job losses, and social pressure. Millions of ...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s one-child policy, one of the harshest attempts at population control the world has seen, forced abortions on women, made sterilization widespread and led to baby daughters being ...

The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week. State media praised Peng Peiyun, head of China ...

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Editor's note: This story contains descriptions that may be disturbing. LINYI, China — Outside, rain falls. Inside, a middle-school student completes his homework. His mother watches him approvingly.

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time. As the 30-year-old from Beijing and his wife consider whether to have a second child, they face a question of resources.

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it. By Chris Buckley Peng ...

Fang, then a third grader, hemmed and hawed at the simple question as her teacher waited impatiently, unaware the 9-year-old was caught in a dilemma. Since preschool, Fang had been officially ...