''Perhaps no government policy anywhere in the world affected more people
in a more intimate and brutal way than China’s one-child policy. In the
West, there’s a tendency to approve of it as a necessary if overzealous
effort to curb China’s population growth and overcome poverty. In fact,
it was unnecessary and has led to a rapid aging of China’s population
that may undermine the country’s economic prospects. The scholar Wang
Feng has declared the one-child policy to be China’s worst policy
mistake, worse even than the Cultural Revolution or the Great Leap
Forward (which led to the worst famine in world history). The one-child
policy broke up families and destroyed lives on an epic scale—and
although it officially ended last fall, it continues to ripple through
the lives of Chinese and the 120,000 Chinese babies who were adopted in
America and other Western countries..''
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