China's one-child policy is state-sponsored violence against women and children. In 2015, the one-child policy marked its 35th anniversary. It has been called the world's largest social experiment and has had tragic effects on Chinese families and society. Coercive population control policies are also the cause of a demographic time bomb. China has a rapidly aging population, a shrinking labor force, and a dramatic gender imbalance that drives regional human trafficking problems and potentially higher levels of crime and societal instability. China's central government has started to gently revise its population control policies in the past year, though the overall policy and the huge bureaucracy that enforces it remain intact. That's 35 years of telling couples what their families must look like, 35 years of forced and coerced abortions and sterilizations, 35 years of children viewed by the state as excess baggage from the day that they were conceived. The human rights violations associated with this policy are massive. We have only recently begun to fully understand the demographic consequences of what that could mean for China, for China's neighbors, and for the rest of the world.