China has ended it’s one-child policy. It is replaced with a two child policy. They instituted the law in 1979 to curb a booming a population. Now the communist government is repealing the controversial policy. John Iadarola (Think Tank), Brett Erlich (Pop Trigger), Margaret J. Howell (The Lip TV) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“China announced Thursday it would end its controversial “family planning policy,” better known to the West as the “one-child policy” that restricted Chinese citizens to one child per couple, the state newswire service Xinhua reported. The country will now allow couples to have two children, though it is unclear if there will be additional restrictions beyond that. The move is the ultimate step in a series of relaxations to the policy in recent years intended to promote a younger labor force.

The one-child policy: The policy was introduced by the country’s ruling Communist leaders in 1979 in an effort to curb a population of nearly 1 billion. Like many undeveloped nations, previous eras of Chinese families typically had many children to support agriculture, serve as a hedge against high child mortality and were also useful for China’s armies. Under the leadership of the nation’s founder, Mao Zedong, who died in 1976, Chinese families were encouraged to have as many children as they could manage.

Chastened by a famine between 1958 and 1962, which killed an estimated 36 million people, leaders after Mao began to fear the implications of China’s population. Many were convinced by the ideas of Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich, whose 1968 book The Population Bomb argued that Earth’s population was growing beyond its capacity to feed itself and would eventually result in societal collapse and chaos.”