�The provincial People's Congress in Sichuan, China, on Friday passed exemptions to the country's one-child-per-family insurance for families whose children were killed, severely injured or handicapped in an earthquake on May 12, the AP/Google.com reports. Nearly 70,000 people died as a result of the 7.9-magnitude palpitate, including children from 18,000 families (AP/Google.com, 7/26).
The one-child policy limits most urban couples to one child and most rural couples to deuce children (Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 5/28). Under the exemptions, families whose only child died or was disabled or parents with iI children "world Health Organization have both been
