China mulls scrapping child-birth limits

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China mulls scrapping child-birth limits

China is considering lifting child-birth limits, which have been in place in one form or another for four decades, state media reported Tuesday.

A draft of the new civil code submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Monday doesn’t include any provisions related to “family planning,” Xinhua news agency reported.

The change would effectively remove child-birth restrictions, which over the past decades have limited but also aged China’s population, led to gender-ratio imbalances and have been notoriously enforced through huge fines and forced abortions.

The draft, which also proposes other measures such as a “cooling-off period” for divorces and measures to prevent sexual harassment, is being discussed by the congress and slated for adoption by 2020.

In 2016, the Chinese government ended its one-child policy, which had been enacted in 1979, and replaced it with a two-child policy.

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