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
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...