No change in One-Child Policy

In an article published today, the wide-spread hope of additional changes to China's One-Child policy appears to have died with the announcement that there will be no change in the policy for at least another decade.

While I understand China's desire to control the population as it develops, they have not successfully dealt with the side-effects of the one-child policy: infant abandonment, infantacide, child kidnappings and child trafficking - all amazingly shocking issues occuring on a daily basis in China, where children are often treated like commodity items, to be traded, sold or killed at the whim of the parents. While it is interesting to watch China trying to enter modern commerce, I am constantly reminded at how far they have yet to come in order to truly be ready to meet the challenges of this next century.