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China's 'one-child policy' left at least 1 million bereaved parents childless and alone in old age, with no one to take care of them

  • Written by Lihong Shi, Associate Professor of Anthropology , Case Western Reserve University
imageFor four decades, the Chinese government has restricted family size.Peter Charlesworth/LightRocket via Getty Images

A child’s death is devastating to all parents. But for Chinese parents, losing an only child can add financial ruin to emotional devastation.

That’s one conclusion of a research project on parental grief I’ve...

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