After 36 years, communist China has finally decided to end its infamous one-child policy, and will now allow couples to have up to two children, the Breitbart website reports today (October 29, 2015).
The news was reported by the state-run Xinhua news agency, citing a statement released by the fifth plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party that has been meeting in Beijing.
Chairman Deng Xiaoping enacted the one-child policy in 1979 as a measure aimed at control, but the hotly contested law had created a series of gender imbalances and ultimately proved counterproductive for the new phase of social and economic development of the Asian giant.
Punishments for having a second child ranged from high monetary fines and the loss of employment to forced abortions, and the policy is estimated to have prevented 400 million births since its inception.
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