LAWRENCE — When University of Kansas professor John James Kennedy began working in rural China, he would get introduced to villagers with multiple children – despite the country’s strict one-child policy.

“Some of these villagers would have three kids. They’d introduce...

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with John James Kennedy, associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas, whose work in China led him to the conclusion that millions of girls believed to have been aborted or to have died early were in fact born to parent...

"It sounds like the plot of a mystery novel.

A controversial one-child policy that resulted in as many as 60 million "missing girls" in China, the most populous country on Earth.

But in a new study, researchers suggest that around 25 million of these girls aren't actual...