Current Events Practice

1. What's being discussed in this article? This article discusses how people in China are beginning to fight back against the law that allows them to only have one child. This law has been in place for nearly 30 years but is slowly changing in some parts of the country. In some rural parts of the country people are allowed to have a second child if their first was a girl. It is still widely believed that male children are superior to female. The government is hesitant to get rid of the one child law however. They estimated the fertility rate to be around 1.8, when in actuality it may be closer to 1.6. There could end up being a problem however because women in cities and wealthy rural areas did not generally want multiple children.
2. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?) This story was written recently, but this has been an issue ever since the law was implemented 30-40 years ago. 
3. What questions do you have that would help make this article make more sense to you? What more do you need to learn about to be able to report on this event? It would help to learn more about the law itself, and other cases of people trying to fight the law. it also may help to learn about how the fertility rate is calculated and why the number is what it is. A question you may ask is why do women not want to have multiple children?