As soon as China abandoned its one-child policy a year ago, Zheng Xiaoyu and her husband started trying for a sibling for their nine-year-old son.
More than half of Chinese parents do not want a second child, and 25 percent remain hesitant, according to a new study that highlights the challenges facing efforts to inject new blood into an aging population.
The country's dwindling labor force might negatively impact the economy
Some women say it's too hard to find help; private investors reluctant to enter the market
Officials in Changshu, Jiangsu province, found eight child laborers on Tuesday after an online video exposed the illegal use of underage workers in garment factories.
Relaxation of limits meant to offset effects of aging population
On World Polio Day, which falls on Oct. 24, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that since the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988, polio worldwide has been reduced by 99 percent.
China's latest family planning policy, which allows all parents to have a second child, is facing a major setback and demographic change seems irreversible, sohu.com reported on October 20.
Since the one-child policy was first enacted over thirty years ago, birthrates across China have remained low. Now, almost a full-year into the new two-child policy, the rate in many areas has seen little to no increase.
For the 16-year-old Bareilly rape survivor who has been pleading to the court for an abortion after she found herself pregnant, time is running out.
As millions of couples are considering welcoming a second child under China's universal two-child policy, the government is moving to take better care of bereaved parents whose only child died or became disabled.
Remarried couples in Guangdong province who are pregnant with their second child will not be forced to have an abortion, even though they have not yet been granted permission for a second child.
While the change of family planning policy allows couples to have an additional child legally, the high costs associated with growing a family discourages those who can't afford even one.
Government of Ghana will in the coming days get tougher on human trafficking in all forms, a senior public official announced here on Wednesday.
A Singapore study that followed hundreds of primary-age children for five years discovered that perfectionist parenting styles may make children excessively self-critical and undermine their confidence and self-belief
Don’t worry - children can still be making progress in their literacy even if they are declared to be ‘below year-level expectations’
Cambodia sentenced an American man to a decade in jail on Tuesday, for sexually abusing girls as young as five, the latest effort to punish foreign paedophiles in the impoverished country.
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