A group of Chinese babies take part in a swimming contest at the National Swimming center in Beijing, on Sept. 22, 2012.
China is relaxing its decades-old one-child policy, a restriction designed to slow population growth. Formerly, urban couples were limited to having a single child while rural couples were permitted to have two children when the first born was a girl. Couples will now be allowed to have two children if one parent is an only child.
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