Deng One Child Policy

This video opened the Trust Women 2013 plenenary on the unintended consequences of family planning and health polices. The policy -making arm of China's Communist Party is meeting this week to hammer out a strategy for the country's economic and.

China will allow two children for every couple in an effort to counter its aging population and boost its workforce. After writing about the world's biggest family planning experiment Wall Street Journal reporter Mei Fong learns why parenthood.

Almost four years ago Chinese leaders announced an end to one of the world's most radical social experiments the one child. Beijing abandons its controversial policy after concerns about ageing population.