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Cheryl Wetzstein

cwetzstein@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Wetzstein, a Washington Times staff member since 1985, is manager of special sections in The Washington Times' Advertising and Marketing Department.
Previously, she spent 30 years as a Washington Times news reporter, covering national domestic policy, in addition to being a features writer, environmental and consumer affairs reporter, and assistant business editor.
Beginning in 1994, Mrs. Wetzstein worked exclusively on welfare and family issues such as child support enforcement, abstinence and sex education, child welfare, sexually transmitted diseases, marriage, divorce, cohabiting and gay marriage.
She has won several newspaper awards, including 1977 Cub Reporter of the Year and 1983 Heart of New York award, both from the New York Press Club.

Articles by Cheryl Wetzstein

Chai Ling, founder of All Girls Allowed, a nonprofit that advocates for life, value and dignity of "the girl child" and an end to China's one-child birth-control policy, testified April 30, 2015, before the Congressional Executive Commission on China on Capitol Hill. (Image courtesy of Chai Ling/All Girls Allowed)

China’s one-child policy: Mother seeks end to gendercide of girls

As a university student in 1989, Chai Ling stood up for government reforms in China's Tiananmen Square protests. Today, she is seeking another massive reform: the conversion of China's one-child policy to one that allows all children -- with a special emphasis on "all girls allowed."

May 8, 2015
China's gender imbalance comes from the "terrible collision" of a "ruthless son preference," the one-child policy, plus advanced gender-detecting technologies, American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt told lawmakers. (Associated Press)

China’s ‘one-child’ population woes being felt around region

Massive gender imbalances — which in China have resulted in some 37 million "missing girls" in the wake of the country's longtime "one child" policy — is spreading to other countries in the region, analysts told a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday.

April 30, 2015