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- Published on: 22 March 2016
- Published on: 22 March 2016
- Published on: 22 March 2016One child whitewashShow More
Dear Editor
The recent article "The One Child Policy" by W X Zhu [1] notes that: "a strict one child per family policy is imposed in the cities." However, the article downplays the severity of the abuse, and even falsely claiming that: "in 30 pilot counties the policy has been lifted."
In May, 2002, the US State Department looked at several of these United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) so-...
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None declared. - Published on: 22 March 2016The one child family policy in China and the gender ratioShow More
Dear Editor
Zhu points out the favorable effects of the One Child Family Policy (OCFP) on China’s demographic problems and on the population.[1] In our opinion, the considerable, unfavorable consequences of the OCFP are not sufficiently taken into consideration in the article. One of the major problems is the gender imbalance of Chinese population. The gender ratio mentioned by Zhu refers to the entire population,...
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