Reckoning with the Fallout of China's 'One Child' Policy
Reckoning with the Fallout of China's 'One Child' Policy  
Podcast: All Of It with Alison Stewart
Published On: Wed Jul 29 2026
Description: [REBROADCAST FROM August 7, 2025]  As Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, journalist Barbara Demick reported on the politics and impact of China's 'one-child' policy. Demick has written a new book that follows the story of how the policy affected one family, and a set of twins forcefully separated and put into the adoption system. Demick discusses her book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins. Plus, listeners share their experience navigating the international adoption system. Cover art courtesy of the publisher Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.