Fertility Rate In Chinese County Exempt From One-Child Policy Lower Than National Average, Christian Science Monitor Reports

... The Chinese county of Yicheng, which has been exempt for the last 21 years from the country's one-child-per-family policy, has been found to have a lower fertility rate than the national average, the Christian Science Monitor reports (Ford, Christian Science Monitor, 2/27). China's one-child policy seeks to keep the country's population, now 1.3 billion, at about 1.7 billion by 2050. [click link for full article] ...