What are the reasons behind China's one child policy?

With China's one-child policy ending on Thursday after more than three decades, looking back to when—and why—the strict policy was first implemented shows us how China's demographics have shifted in critical ways. read more

The change to China's one-child policy will likely result in even fewer babies available for international adoptions. But, Aronson said, "it could take a long time for that." Chinese grandparents and grandchildren play in a park in Dafeng, in east China's Jiangsu province, in a file photo from 2010. read more

Littlejohn talked more about China's one-child policy with CBN's Paul Strand below: Littlejohn sees this government-sponsored spying and snooping as a method for the party to keep people from organizing future Tianamen Square-type thrusts for democracy. read more

Three years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping—the man behind China's economic development—enacted the one-child policy against his predecessor's wishes. Today, more and more Chinese seem to agree with Mao. read more

One-child policy, official program initiated in the late 1970s and early ’80s by the central government of China, the purpose of which was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. The rationale for implementing the policy was to reduce the growth rate of China’s enormous population. read more

While the One-Child Policy in China has more or less come to an end, there was a very important reason for it to exist. After Chairman Mao told his people to reproduce as much as possible, it became clear that agricultural output of China could not support a growing population. read more