BEIJING -- China's one-child policy, one of the harshest attempts at population control the world has seen, forced abortions ...

China’s birth-rate struggle underscores the ripples of a one-child policy - China’s population stands at 1.404 billion today, ...

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, fertility rates have not bounced back. NPR speaks with journalist Cindy Yu ...

Despite government efforts to boost fertility, China's birth rate fell to a record low in 2025.

A child’s death is devastating to all parents. But for Chinese parents, losing an only child can add financial ruin to emotional devastation. That’s one conclusion of a research project on parental ...

After China’s birth rate hit record lows last year, some are now wondering whether its one-child policy was necessary. In ...

Once the world’s most populous nation, China is now among the many Asian countries struggling with anemic fertility rates. In ...

BEIJING — Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time. As the 30-year-old from Beijing and his wife consider whether to have a second child, they face a question of ...

Show more Show less China's birth rate could fall from 1.4 billion today to around 800 million by 2100, the United Nations says Chinese couples say high child-rearing costs and career worries are ...

China’s decades-long one-child policy is credited with helping China’s economy grow, but many Chinese resent it bitterly, and there already several exceptions to the rule. Now the authorities are ...