'One Child' Policy Weakens Chinese Economy, Expert Says

By Josiah Ryan
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
June 16, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - China's "one-child" per couple population control policy may be costing the Chinese economy billions of dollars, Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, said at a lecture in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

During his talk, which was entitled "Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits," Mosher also said the policy has led to a huge unbalance in China's gender ratio, a booming sex trade around its borders and vast human rights abuses in the name of reproductive health.

"By eliminating a couple of hundred million people, China has made itself poorer," Mosher told Cybercast News Service on Friday after speaking at the conservative Heritage Foundation. the rest