Many Chinese families say they have no desire for additional children for a variety of reasons. That leaves many to wonder what impact—if any—the three-child policy will have on population growth.

Long seen in the West as a byword for the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handedness, the one-child policy became a trope for Chinese authoritarianism. While the policy was officially scrapped ...

Due to China's misguided one-child policy, there aren't enough women to bear the three children the country now wants them to have. Wang Zhao/AFP/GettyImages Last Monday, the handful of old men ...

CAO: Yeah. INSKEEP: For more than 35 years, China enforced a policy of one child per family in most cases. Though the policy was abandoned a decade ago, it shaped the lives of those who are now ...

China is in the midst of a drastic population decline fueled by its infamous one-child policy and threatening its long-term economic growth.

Chinese citizens greet new 3-child policy with humor Women in China have taken to social media to push back against having one more child.

People were stunned last week when newspapers reported that women in southern China are trying to bypass the country's one-child policy by using fertility drugs to have multiple births.

Now, with the Chinese government allowing all married couples to have a third child, some Chinese women are worried the discrimination will only get worse.

China's new policy of allowing couples to have three children is a response to aging population concerns and a slowing birth rate. But the policy's implications for working women mean few will ...

China precipitated its own demographic decline by keeping the one-child policy in place for nearly 35 years.