Vietnam on Tuesday scrapped its nearly four-decade policy limiting families to two children, as Vietnamese birth rates continue to drop, the older population increases and officials warn of the ...

Twenty-five-year-old Grace and her husband are set on staying child-free, resisting pressure from their parents and society ...

The country launched a new three-child policy to address its declining birth rate, but couples remain resistant to the idea of having more children.

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.

Vietnam has ended its two-child policy in hopes of a resurgence of youth in an aging population. The communist country's National Assembly passed a new amendment that nullifies families from having a ...

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time and the numbers for having another child just don’t add up.

China's one-child policy, enforced nationwide from 1979, is facing renewed criticism as they confronts mounting pressure to care for aging parents.

Even though the regulation was loosely enforced, the nation’s birthrate fell to a record low last year. By Damien Cave Reporting from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Vietnam has eliminated its policy of ...

Fang, then a third grader, hemmed and hawed at the simple question as her teacher waited impatiently, unaware the 9-year-old was caught in a dilemma. Since preschool, Fang had been officially ...

China’s one-child policy was not only cruel; it was a failure. Decades of shackling women to beds and forcing them to undergo abortions certainly reduced the birth rate. But it had been falling anyway ...

Vietnam has abolished its long-standing two-child policy to tackle concerns about declining birth and fertility rates. The National Assembly Standing Committee approved a new regulation lifting the ...