For the last 30 years China has sought to curb the growth of its vast population by restricting couples to having just one child- with one exception. In the case of a multiple pregnancy, penalties are exempt.  As BON's Kelda Yuen reports- an increasing number of Chinese couples are now taking advantage of this loophole with the help of fertility drugs.

One Child Problems
Cao Cao's Tomb
A Real Communist
Demoted For Success
Korea Detains Chinese Boat

With its over 1.3 billion people, almost one fifth of humanity, China has had to take stringent measures to deal with its population explosion. For the past three decades, China's one-child policy has effectively prevented four hundred million births, a number greater than the entire U.S. population. In many ways, the policy seems to have worked: With fewer mouths to feed, poverty has fallen, living standards have improved dramatically, and China has become an economic power to be reckoned with. However, as a result of the one-child policy, China faces new problems: a looming demographic disaster as the population ages, social and psychological problems of the only-child generation, and criticism from overseas concerning human rights violations. After 30 years' of implementation, the government-established deadline for the policy is just around the corner, and a fierce debate rages over whether to keep the policy in place, or to abolish it.

How far would you go to save your child's life? It's a question that might leave non-parents feeling a little on the spot. But parents everywhere know exactly how they would answer: a parent will do anything and everything it takes to save their child. That's exactly what's brought one American mother from her family's home in California all the way to the other side of the world, to China. Her trip is a last ditch attempt to save her daughter's life, in the form of an extraordinary appeal for help to every one of China's 1.3 billion citizens.

CHILD TRAFFICKER GETS DEATH
COMING DOWN HARD ON DUI
REBRANDING CHINA
STEM CELL RESEARCH CENTER
VOLUNTEERING IN CHINA
PUSHING THE FLIGHT ENVELOPE