The children are, in most cases, no longer casualties of war but "social orphans," whose parents have abandoned or relinquished them, usually because of poverty, or, in the case of China, because of its one-child-per-family policy.

For the past thirty years China has had what is usually described overseas as a one-child-per-family policy.

The Party has held much of China to a one-child-per-family policy for thirty years, and, by and large, it still does.

He said that such women could only find jobs through women's federations or "neighborhood committees," grass-roots groups that in the past focused on enforcing the one-child-per-family policy and reporting on suspicious political activity.

Here's a quick review of possible objections, left and right: B ribing poor women and girls to implant Norplant would coerce them into not having children, thus violating their rights to reproductive choice, like the one-child-per-family policy and coerced abortions in China.

The language seems calculated to outrage Americans already upset over the forced abortions, prematurely induced labor and other cruelties associated with China's strict one-child-per-family policy.

Beijing uses coercive action, including forced abortions and sterilizations, to enforce a one-child-per-family policy.

They have put teeth into their one-child-per-family policy.

When the Government imposed its one-child-per-family policy in 1979, its intent was not to impose a death sentence on large numbers of girl babies, although that result should have been foreseen.