in 154 countries". Effect on infanticide rates Sex-selected abortion, abandonment, and infanticide are illegal in China. Nevertheless, the US Department of State, the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and the human rights organization Amnesty International have all declared that infanticide still exists. A writer for the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs wrote, "The 'one-child' policy has also led to what Amartya Sen first called 'Missing Women', or the 100million girls 'missing' from the populations of China (and other developing countries) as a result of female infanticide, abandonment, and neglect". The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation offered the following summary as to the long term effects of sex-selective abortion and abandonment of female infants: Anthropologist G. William Skinner at the University of California, Davis and Chinese researcher Yuan Jianhua have claimed that infanticide was fairly common in China before the 1990s. See also Population history of China Shidu (bereavement), denoting the loss of an only child Two-child policy Three-child policy The Dying Rooms Starvation General: Abortion in China Demographics of China Human overpopulation Human population planning List of countries and dependencies by population References Further reading Alpermann, Björn, and Shaohua Zhan. "Population planning after the one-child policy: shifting modes of political steering in China." Journal of Contemporary China 28.117 (2019): 348-366 online. Cai, Yong; Feng, Wang (2021). "The Social and Sociological Consequences of China's One-Child Policy ". Annual Review of Sociology. 47(1) Feng, Wang, et al. “Population, Policy, and Politics: How Will History Judge China's One-Child Policy?” Population and Development Review vol. 38, (2013), pp. 115–129. online Interview with Mei on her challenges writing the book. Zamora López, Francisco, and Cristina Rodríguez Veiga. "From One Child to Two: Demographic Policies in China and their Impact on Population." Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 172 (2020): 141-160 online. Zhang, Junsen. "The evolution of China's one-child policy and its effects on family outcomes." Journal of Economic Perspectives 31.1 (2017): 141–60. online External links Family Planning in China Birth control in China Human overpopulation Population ecology Political controversies in China 1978 introductions 1980 introductions 2015 disestablishments in China Cold War history of China Demographics of China