Forbidden Children: China's One-Child Policy
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The One Child Policy in China
As the birth planning laws churned on throughout the decades, a set of unintended consequences began to ripple across chinese society. The one child policy was tearing the social fabric of china to shreds. But in spite of it all, people were finding ways to stitch loving families together during this period of intense hardship. So as we've been exploring some of these different stories, you might have started to notice a specific pattern. The child n that seemed to be most adversely affected by the one child policy were girls. There is a very particular reason that the one childpolicy negatively affected female children weigh more than male children.
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