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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (103716)	2/10/2009 1:41:22 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542054

Wiki's really outdated on this. The one-child rules have been completely lifted, for several years now, and the govt. is encouraging the public to have more children. The goal is to return to replacement rate (2.1 children). The adoption of chinese children out of the country was halted two years ago, and these children are now being placed in chinese homes with stipends being paid to the families who take them. In some underpopulated regions of the countryside, the govt. is paying families to have more children. Declining population trends are a great worry to the Chinese govt. planners. The problem now is that in spite of govt. entreaties of the public to have more children, the public is refusing. They like the material prosperity that comes from having only one child. They shower their only children with everything possible, and in China this has given rise to the term "little emperors" when referring to the child in these one-child families.