article_snippet: Since the early 1980s, the Communist Party has enforced a draconian one-child policy on most Chinese to curb population growth.
article_snippet: History will look back to see the one-child policy as one of the most glaring policy mistakes that China has made in China modern history.
article_snippet: Perhaps surprisingly, Wang says that the one-child policy was both ineffective and unnecessary, since China's fertility rates were already slowing by the 1980s.
article_snippet: But with around 150 million one-child families and a shrinking population, China is moving cautiously, rather than doing away with the one-child policy altogether.
highlights_snippet: China's controversial one-child policy was recently relaxed .
  