"Loss of children intensified by China law; One-child mandate has social, financial impact after death" by William Wan | Washington Post, August 09, 2013
PANJIN, China — For more than three decades, debate has raged over China’s one-child policy....
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Kind of a surprise, 'eh?
Human rights groups have exposed forced abortions, infanticide, and involuntary sterilizations, practices banned in theory by the government.
I'm not doubting it happens, but it is from ma$$ media juman rights groups so....
And officials are increasingly deliberating whether the long-term economic costs of the policy — including a looming labor shortage — now outweigh the benefits.
That is a good point, too. A society that doesn't produce children is a culture that will die.
In the latest sign of such concern, the government announced last weekend that it is studying ways to relax the one-child policy in coming years, according to state media.
Been doing it for years from what I linked.
Little discussed and largely ignored, however, is a quiet devastation left in the policy’s wake: childless parents.
A parent’s worst nightmare in any country, the deaths of children are even more painful in China because of the cultural importance of descendents, increasing financial pressures on the elderly, and the legal limits on bearing additional offspring.
With all due respect to the Chinese, I think any culture feels the deaths of its children keenly no matter what the circumstances. Of course, it's a supremacist Jew media telling me such things.
Few reliable numbers exist on such grieving parents. But one study at the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Science estimated there are already more than 1 million parents who lost their only child, a number likely to rise rapidly.
What is the point of this article from the pro-abortion paper other than to push the cruelty of China narrative?
So how many children has China put out of existence via drone strikes anyway?
Many such parents are too old to conceive again, and some say they regret not pushing for a second child when they could have, even if it would have meant losing their jobs and getting hit with crushing fines.
We all have regrets in life. I don't say that to minimize their pain, it's just in acknowledgment.
In quiet and often tearful interviews, more than 30 parents who lost children characterized their child’s death as a crippling financial blow because of how strongly China’s elderly tend to depend on their children to supplement modest government pensions.
Is it me or does that make it sound like the Chinese care more about the money they can make from the kids as opposed to loving them because they are flesh and blood?
Many cited the enormous resources the government has plowed into one-child enforcement, creating an entire new wing of bureaucracy down to the township level.
The policy has limited exceptions for rural and ethnic groups.
What?
The government collects steep fines from offenders, each year estimated to be in the billions, although the precise amount is kept secret.
Wow, the Chinese are harder on parents than the U.S. government is on thieving Wall Street banks.
And yet, the parents complain, it wasn’t until 2007 that China began to disburse small sums as compensation to families whose only child had died.
I wonder if it is more than the couple thousand bucks the AmeriKan empire forks over for its slaughter of innocents.
Equally difficult, many parents say, is their private struggle with shame. One of the gravest insults in Chinese is to curse someone to die ‘‘duanzi, juesun’’ — childless, without descendants....
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That's the real dink right there, that link.
Maybe you could find a bed-and-breakfast for the night?
That's the real dink right there, that link.
Maybe you could find a bed-and-breakfast for the night?
