Article 9

Does the country technically have a two child policy now?

Yes

Was the stock market quick to react because of the Chinese government ending the one child policy?

Yes

Did the value of infant formula companies like Mead Johnson Nutrition increase as investors dreamed of making a profit off a sudden Chinese baby boom? Are they likely to be disappointed?

Yes; Yes

In 1979, Chinese government announced a population goal of what for the year 2000? What did the population reach by the year 2000?

1.2 billion; 1.26 billion

In the 1970s, books like the Population Bomb by biologist Paul Ehrlich sold how many copies? What did it warn would happen without population control?

2 million copies; It warned the world would run out of food, water and other resources.

Due to the one child policy, the Chinese government estimates that it lead to how many fewer births? What is China now facing?

400 million fewer births; China now faces a major aging crisis.

Older countries grow slower economically which is a big enough problem for rich nations like Japan where the median age is what? China is on pace to become what?

45; become old before it can become rich.

As women grow richer, more educated and more urbanized, they choose to have what?

Fewer children

China is no different from what other aging developed countries where the fertility rate is well below the 2.1 births per woman needed to keep a population stable?

No different from other aging developed countries such as Japan, South Korea, Germany, or Italy.

Global aging is now a bigger worry than what?

Global overpopulation, which is why countries that once pursued population control are now implementing policies meant to increase their birth rates. However, it's harder to persuade women into having more children than it is to prevent them.

What did Carly Fiorina, GOP presidential candidate say, after the hosts on ABC's "The View" mocked her appearance during the October 28 debate?

"I am tired of being insulted by liberal feminists. Let's see if they have the guts to say that to my face."

What will happen by 2050?

1 in 3 Chinese will be older than 60, a 430 million stronger group larger than the entire US population.

Beginning in 1980, many Chinese women were permitted to do what? What would happen to those who violated the policy?

Bear only one child; they could be heavily fined and there were hundreds of millions of government approved abortions and some were forced on unwilling women.

Who briefly experimented with forced sterilization in the mid-1970s? Who under the Communist Party began a lasting program to control the growth of population?

India; China

Due to the huge wave of working age adults that had fewer children to take care of, what did this do to the economy?

It helped speed the countries explosive economic growth in the 1990s and 2000s. It's certain that the one child policy was responsible for those changes.

How was China aging fast?

It is already a generation of young Chinese struggling with what's called the "4-2-1 phenomenon", in which a single working grandchild has to support two parents and four grandparents.

In the 1970s, before the one child policy was put in place, the average Chinese woman was bearing (having) how many children and what was the population growing to?

More than five children, and the population was growing to nearly 3% a year.

What did the Chinese government announce in 2013?

That adults who are only children would be permitted to have two kids. However, of the 11 million eligible citizens only about 1.5 million have applied to do so.

What did the poll by China's family planning commission find in 2008?

That just 19% of the people surveyed wanted more than one child.

What happened on October 29? It may be too late to reverse the damage of China's what?

The Chinese government finally ended it's one child policy. One child policy

Due to the cultural preference for sons, what did many chinese parents do if they had females? What happened as a result?

They would abort the female fetuses to ensure that their only child would be a boy. As a result, China had 30 million missing women, a growing gender imbalance that could threaten the country's security as millions of Chinese men known as "BARE BRANCHES" were unable to find anyone to marry.

What will married Chinese couples be free to have?

Two children