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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long seen in the West as a byword for the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handedness, the one-child policy became a trope for ...

Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li ...

Cambodian girls as young as 14 are being trafficked to China for forced marriages, a trade fueled by the communist nation’s decades-long one-child policy — and poverty, high personal debt and a lack ...

China’s birth rate hit rock bottom, one decade after it announced the end of its one-child policy, multiple outlets reported Monday. Meanwhile, the country’s population fell for the fourth straight ...

In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, the journalist profiles twins separated as toddlers by China’s one-child policy and examines America’s demand for international adoptees. How brutally was China’s one ...

China’s one-child policy was not only cruel; it was a failure. Decades of shackling women to beds and forcing them to undergo abortions certainly reduced the birth rate. But it had been falling anyway ...

HONG KONG, March 18 (Reuters) - China's Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, announced a slew of childcare subsidies this month and promised to "care" for new mothers by giving them a daily cup of ...