WHOA! China Changes One Child Policy In an amazing change on one of the great demographic disasters of human history, China, another of the various old world countries cobbled together by appropriating provinces and countries that were previously on their own, at least for a little while, is abandoning its one child policy. Families may now have two children. China on Thursday said it would formally end its notorious one-child policy, which was intended to curb a surging population but has since been blamed for looming demographic problems in the worlds No. 2 economy. In a brief statement on Thursday, Chinas official Xinhua News Agency said all Chinese would be allowed to have two children. It didnt provide a time frame or any other details. China effectively hobbled the one-child policy two years ago, when it allowed couples to have two children if one parent came from a household without other siblings. It has also long allowed exceptions in some parts of the country. Chinas one child policy was instituted in 1980. In the intervening 35 years, China has seen a number of potentially detrimental social and economic issues crop up: These were consequences anyone with sense of how human nature works could have foretold. Now, China, one of the more oppressive regimes on the planet, has had to relent because their people were being human, and following the laws of base humanity. Imagine that. 