Slate answers a very legitimate, and extremely sad, question regarding the recent earthquake in China. Basically, China has a policy where each family is only allowed one child, in order to keep population growth under control. But many of these families have now lost that child in the recent horrible tragedy. Can they have another?
According to Slate, yes they can. Depending on where in China the family resides, "Mothers are allowed to have a second child if the first one dies or—in many cases—if he or she has a major disability." Some can also have a second child if the first one is a girl. (How Ancient Sparta of them.)
Aside: the "one child per" policy also may have played a part in the abandoned Queens baby case, according to one of our commenters.
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