Easing of China one-child policy too late for those who lost only child
November 27, 2015 14:00
Cui Wenlan was devastated when she heard the news last month that China was scrapping its one-child policy. She is among more than a million grieving Chinese parents who have lost the only child the government allowed them to have.Cui's son was 30 when he died after an illness and she had been forced to abort her second baby in 1985.
Now she and her husband are adrift in a country where parents traditionally rely on their children to look after them in old age."If, back then, we had been allowed to give birth again, I wouldn't be in so much trouble and wouldn't be so lonely," said Cui, 53, from the northern city of Zhangjiakou. Read more
Now she and her husband are adrift in a country where parents traditionally rely on their children to look after them in old age."If, back then, we had been allowed to give birth again, I wouldn't be in so much trouble and wouldn't be so lonely," said Cui, 53, from the northern city of Zhangjiakou. Read more
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