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| Witnessing a Changing Family Planning Policy |
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| A village in east China's Anhui Province gathering women who had more children than what the family planning plan allowed in 1989. Many of those women came here just to give birth. In the beginning of the 1980s, many rural families still had more than one child due to a traditional thinking that male heirs carried on the family line, and because the family needed men to work the land. | |
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A village in east China's Anhui Province gathering women who had more children than what the family planning plan allowed in 1989. Many of those women came here just to give birth. In the beginning of the 1980s, many rural families still had more than one child due to a traditional thinking that male heirs carried on the family line, and because the family needed men to work the land. |
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