Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time and the numbers for having another child just don’t add up.

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.

The death of Peng Peiyun, a former senior Chinese official who oversaw the countrys one-child policy for a decade, has ...

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 ...

The death of Peng Peiyun, former head of China's Family Planning Commission, reignites debate over China's one-child policy. Introduced to curb population growth, the policy mandated one child per ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Innovation futurist, keynote speaker and author, based in California. In 1979, China’s leaders implemented the now-infamous “One ...

Vietnam has ended its two-child policy in hopes of a resurgence of youth in an aging population. The communist country's National Assembly passed a new amendment that nullifies families from having a ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. “What are your parents’ names?” Fang, then a ...

The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned ...