One-Child Policy Lifted for Quake Victims’ Parents

Chinese officials said that parents whose only child was killed or grievously injured in the May 12 earthquake could apply for legal permission to have another child.

Chengdu eases one-child policy for quake victims

Authorities in Chengdu City said it will relax the one-child policy for families who lost their only child in the Sichuan earthquake, the Sichuan-based Tianfu Morning Post reported, citing the provincial capital's family planning commission.

China Sticking With One-Child Policy

China’s top population official has ruled out changing the country’s one-child family planning policy for at least another decade.

China to Reconsider One-Child Limit

Any changes would come gradually and would not mean an elimination of family planning policies, a senior official said.

Beijing to Raise Fines on Elites Who Violate the One-Child Rule

Celebrity has its perks, but in Beijing, large families are not one of them.

Beijing drafting tougher laws on abortion of girls

Fearing the approach of a ticking "bachelor bomb," China is drafting tougher legislation against sex-selective abortions that have boosted the number of boys so dramatically, that newborn boys now outnumber girls eight to five in one city.

Chinese Police Arrest 28 in Riots Against Family Planning Laws

As many as 3,000 people erupted in violence over measures to impose tighter family planning controls in a rural part of the Guangxi autonomous region in China.

Harsh Birth Control Steps Fuel Violence in China

An intensive campaign to enforce population-control measures prompted violent clashes between the police and local residents in southwestern China in recent days.

Shanghai Daily Editorial: Officials who violate family planning must be punished, shamed

In China, bearing two or more offspring has become a privilege for a few officials and "elites," and a source of grass roots' righteous anger. It's time to put a stop to the outrage of officials and celebrities...