An End to China’s One-Child Policy: What Does it Mean?

by Mariam Jaffery  
November 6, 2015

After nearly three and a half decades, China’s famous one-child policy is finally coming to an end; the Communist Party announced last week that it will begin to allow families to have up to two children. The one-child policy has been a human-rights disaster, and the demographic, social, and economic effects will haunt China for generations to come.