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

For 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 conducted in China since 2016. From 1980 to 2015, the Chinese government limited couples to one child only. I have interviewed over 100 Chinese parents who started their fami

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