It is being reported today that those residents in China who lost a child in the earthquake or have a child who was seriously injured or disabled will be exempt from the Chinese government’s infamous one-child policy. According to an AP story, Chinese officials have also said that parents who had been paying fines for having [...]
Posts Tagged ‘one-child policy’
The 1-Child Policy Debacle in the China Earthquake Aftermath
Posted by Robert Vance on May 26th, 2008
Boys Vs. Girls in China — Not a Game
Posted by Robert Vance on April 7th, 2008
One of my students, who I will call April, came from a far away province to find a job in my city when she was sixteen years old. “My parents hated me because I was a girl,” she explained to me in broken English. She recounted to me how her grandmother had tried to abandon [...]
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Tags: Birth Control, China, one-child policy, teach-abroad, work-abroad 
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