Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For four decades, the Chinese government has restricted family size. Peter Charlesworth ...

January 1, 2026, marks ten years since China formally scrapped its notorious one-child policy, a sweeping social experiment that shaped family life for more than three decades. The decision to end it ...

Childhood obesity has emerged as a significant public health challenge and there is an urgent need to improve the effectiveness of local government governance to curb its growth. We aimed to estimate ...

Relaxing its restrictions on family size would make it more difficult for China to achieve its goal to be carbon neutral by 2060, according to a new study by UCL researchers. The paper, published as a ...

BEIJING — China rolled out on Monday an annual child care subsidy of 3,600 yuan (about $500) until age 3, as authorities look to spur a flagging birth rate with fewer young people choosing to have ...

On Sept. 4, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs announced that China would no longer carry out foreign adoption work, except for a few narrow exceptions. In turn, the U.S. Department of State notified ...

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