Strict rules designed to protect children mean large numbers of would-be adopters are facing a near-impossible task The ...

Huang’s situation reflects a deep shift across Chinese society: fewer young people are getting married. New marriage registrations fell 20.5 per cent in 2024 to just 6.1mn, the biggest drop on record ...

China’s one-child policy, which lasted from 1980 to 2015, significantly shaped the nation’s demographics. While it effectively curbed population growth—preventing an estimated 400 million ...

After nearly four decades of its one-child policy, designed to curb population growth and reform the country’s economy, China has fully removed all childrearing limits in recent years.

The country’s population fell for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births.

The year 2023 saw the seventh consecutive year of declining births, despite the relaxation of China's one-child policy to allow two children in 2016 and three in 2021, with the fertility rate ...

The European Parliament has condemned Turkish legal action against mayors from opposition parties, and called for municipal officials who have been detained in recent weeks to be released, acquitted ...

There’s renewed debate about the practice now that Trump is moving to eliminate birthright citizenship, which is found in the ...

Marriages in China plummeted by a fifth last year, the biggest drop on record, despite manifold efforts by authorities to ...