Showing posts with label one-child policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label one-child policy. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2009

One-child policy drives Chinese mother to murder

By Carolyn Moynihan

China's unjust and inhumane population laws, which do not stop short of forced abortions, have driven a mother to procure the murder of her nine-year-old son, so that she could have a baby with her new husband. After Li Yingfang's first husband died, she gave custody of her son to the boy's grandmother. Under the one child policy, people who remarry may have a second child if their new spouse is childless, but Li's new husband had a daughter from his own first marriage, preventing the couple from having a child together legally.

Continue...