Why was China's one child policy so ineffective?

In 2013, China relaxed the policy even further by allowing parents to have two children so long as both parents themselves were only children. That exemption largely ended the policy, meaning that today's decision to end the one-child policy is more a formality than a real change. read more

Thirty years after the introduction of China's one-child policy, the government is being urged to rethink its population controls. Thirty years after the introduction of China's one-child policy, the government is being urged to rethink its population controls. read more