2024
DOI: 10.5937/spm88-52015
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The one-child policy and its consequences: Asia and the Balkans

Dajana Lazarević

Abstract: The one-child policy first appeared in the framework of legal regulations in the Republic of China in 1979. According to traditional Chinese beliefs, families with a male heir were considered more respectable and prosperous than families with a female heir. As a large number of families wanted to ensure a male heir and, at the same time, to avoid punishment for exceeding the permitted number of children, parents decided on various methods, which today we would call inhumane and criminal. From selective abortio… Show more

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