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Millions of “Leftover Women” in China

May 13th, 2014 Comments off

by Marcus Roberts

A while ago on Demography is Destiny, we discussed the shortage of young women in China (due mainly to sex selective abortions exacerbated by the one-child policy) and the paradoxical phenomenon of “shengnu” (leftover women): young women who can’t find a husband. In that blogpost we explained this as due to women wanting to find husbands who were higher than them on the financial, educational, and social status ladders. As women in China upskill and become better educated and have better employment prospects, the chance of a woman finding a husband higher than her on these ladders decreases. Read more…

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Chinese Government Publicly Threatens Birth-Violators

April 22nd, 2014 Comments off

China-expert releases photos of propaganda menacing violators of China’s one-child policy

WASHINGTON DC: Population Research Institute released photos of official Chinese signs and banners threatening those who dissent from the government’s one-child policy with forced abortions and sterilizations. Read more…

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Why Won’t Michelle Obama Defend Chinese Women?

March 20th, 2014 Comments off

by Anne Morse, Population Research Institute

First Lady Should Condemn China’s “War on Women”—But Will She?

When Michelle Obama arrives in Beijing today with her two daughters, Sasha and Malia, she will be the envy of Chinese women. She has what almost none of them have. Not only does she have two children—most urban Chinese are limited to one—but she has two daughters. Read more…

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We know China has a one-child policy

March 17th, 2014 Comments off

Who believes media accounts that the Chinese government has eased it?

For the past two years in particular, in American politics, we’ve heard a lot of allegations about certain parties carrying out a ‘war on women’ and it’s becoming a campaign slogan. That’s dishonest, disingenuous, and distracting from the real and very terrible war on women being carried out by the Communist Chinese government. Read more…

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Will China be first to learn its ABC?

February 12th, 2014 Comments off
Recent breast cancer studies from China point to abortion as a cause, but the West remains in denial.

This week has seen the observance of the UN’s World Cancer Day(February 4) highlighting the priority that the UN has given to reducing the global burden of this disease. Each year about 14 million people worldwide learn they have cancer and 8 million people die from the disease. Among the 14 million are around 1.7 million women who find they have breast cancer, which is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer. Lung cancer is the first – and most deadly. Read more…

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Revised one-child policy in China? Take it with a grain of salt, says expert

November 19th, 2013 Comments off

by Charlie Butts

An expert on human rights in China suggests that country’s latest edict claiming it is easing up on the one-child policy shouldn’t be believed.

In most instances, couples in the People’s Republic of China can only have one baby – but there are some exceptions. China now says it’s changing the policy to permit two children, but only under certain circumstances – such as at least one parent being an only child. Previously, both parents had to be an only child to qualify for the exemption. Read more…

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China to ease 1-child policy, abolish labor camps

November 16th, 2013 Comments off

BEIJING (November 15, 2013) – China will loosen family planning rules that limit many couples to a single child in the first substantial change to the unpopular policy in nearly three decades, as leaders seek to address a rapidly aging population. Read more…

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Caring for your parents: a legal obligation in China

October 25th, 2013 Comments off

by Marcus Roberts

Today I would like to share with you a desperately sad story from China about another problem caused (or at least exacerbated) by the one child policy of the last 40 years.  This is the story of Zhang Zefang, the “little old lady who sued her own children for not taking care of her” as told by the . Read more…

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Living With Dead Hearts

September 30th, 2013 Comments off
China’s kidnapped children, and what one father learned from his search.

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As a father of four young children it was not easy for me to watch the new documentary, Living with Dead Hearts: the Search for China’s Kidnapped Children.

Having said that, the film went in directions that I hadn’t expected, and I think it is much the better for it. I had assumed it was simply going to present a litany of tragic child kidnapping cases along with a few “expert” comments sprinkled throughout. Wrong. Not only does the film take us to meet the parents of missing children, it also gives us a lengthy interview with a man who himself had been kidnapped and sold as a child. Read more…

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Group appeals to U.N. to halt one-child policy in China

August 9th, 2013 Comments off

by Charlie Butts

The United Nations is being asked to take action against family-planning policies in China that harm women and children.

A formal complaint has been lodged with the UN body that deals with women’s rights by Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers.

The complaint lists many violent incidents related to enforcement of the one-child policy, as well as abortions performed on the basis of gender. Read more…

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