Chinese Province Passes One-Child Exemption For Parents Whose Children Were Killed, Disabled In Earthquake

The provincial People’s Congress in Sichuan, China, on Friday passed exemptions to the country’s one-child-per-family policy for families whose children were killed, severely injured or disabled in an earthquake on May 12, the AP/Google.com reports. Nearly 70,000 people died as a result of the 7.9-magnitude quake, including children from 18,000 families (AP/Google.com, 7/26).

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on July 31st, 2008