Having a Second Child.docVIP

Having a Second Child 　　On November 15， a document adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was published， announcing that families will be allowed to have a second child if one of the parents is an only child. 　　This decision marks a further relaxation of the family planning policy in China. 　　China first introduced the policy in the late 1970s to rein in the surging population by allowing most urban couples to have only one child and allowing most rural couples to have two if their firstborn was a girl. In late 2011， couples across