Experts Wonder if Changes to Family-Planning Rules Are Too Little, Too Late

(Beijing) – Among the 60 areas covered in the Communist Party's "decision" document released after the third plenum of the 18th Central Committee, the most popular among ordinary people is a revision to the family planning policy to allow some couples to have a second child.

This new policy would allow couples that have one parent who grew up as an only child have a second baby. Whether or not a couple should have a second child is a decision that should be made within the family, but in China the right to make that decision has long been in the hands of the government.