The Story of China's Most Radical Population Experiment

China's one-child policy, introduced in 1980, was meant to curtail high birth rates in the world's most populous nation and reduce the ravages of poverty in rural areas, but has been maligned since its inception. Despite global warming, ecological degradation and the world's population crossing the 7 billion mark, population control by force seems for most people a step too far, whether seen as morally repulsive or a dubious social experiment.