China’s One-Child Policy To Exempt Parents Whose Children Were Killed During Earthquake

Chinese officials from Sichuan province on Monday announced that parents whose children were killed, severely injured or disabled during the May 12 earthquake in the region would be exempt from the country’s one-child-per-family policy, the New York Times reports (Jacobs, New York Times, 5/27).

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on June 1st, 2008