International Campaign for Tibet 2001年12月25日：

A new study by a team led by Melvin Goldstein of the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland says that there is no evidence of forced family planning in Tibet as being alleged by groups monitoring Tibet. The four-person team, which undertook the study, “Fertility and Bold Family Planning in Rural Tibet,” includes two Tibetans from Tibet, Phuntso Tsering and Paljor (Ben Jiao). David Murphy of the Far Eastern Economic Review (December 27-January 3, 2002) reports on the study.

The image of Chinese Communist Party cadres forcing birth control, sterilization and abortion on Tibetan women has contributed to the rage of a generation of human-rights activists in the West.

But according to a new study led by Mel Goldstein, director of the Centre of Research on Tibet, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, changing socio-economic circumstances and a more active family-planning campaign by authorities are the driving factors behind a desire for smaller families in the Tibet Autonomous Region, or TAR. These reasons and “not forced abortions and sterilizations” determine family size, he says.

The study, to be published in the China Journal in Australia in January, "highlights the dangers of using refugee reports and anecdotal evidence to interpret highly politicized situations," say Goldstein and fellow authors Ben Jiao, Cynthia Beall and Phuntsog Tsering. Their view contrasts sharply with reports from some human-rights and Tibet advocacy groups that glean information from among hundreds of Tibetans who flee Chinese rule every year.