Thirty years of China's one-child policy

I found this too:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 77152.html
China rethinks its controversial one-child policy
The country's social engineering has been too successful, reports Clifford Coonan in Beijing
Sunday, 12 September 2010

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116810/
BMJ. 1999 October 9; 319(7215): 992–994.

PMCID: PMC1116810
Copyright © 1999, British Medical Journal
China’s one child family policy
Summary points

* The one child family policy was developed and implemented in response to concerns about the social and economic consequences of continued rapid population growth
* Implementation was more successful in urban areas than rural areas
* Social and economic reforms have made rigorous implementation of the policy more difficult
* The main criticism of the policy is its stimulus to discrimination against females, who may be aborted, abandoned, or unregistered
* The policy has eased some of the pressures of rapid population increase on communities, reducing the population by at least 250 million

Outcomes of one child policy
The one child policy has unquestionably imposed great costs on individuals, even if (as has been suggested16) these costs have to be seen in the context of a Chinese tradition in which demographic decisions have never been individual. The main criticism of the policy, though, is undoubtedly its stimulus to sex discrimination. China has one of the world’s highest rates of suicide of women in the reproductive years.19 At the same time, the successes of the policy should not be underrated.