China's one-child policy, aimed at curbing the country's growing population, has helped facilitate an economic boom over the last three decades. But in a country with few social safety nets, the policy has made elderly parents heavily reliant on their only children. Parents whose children have died face greater uncertainty and are now asking the government to help support them in their old age. China's birth control policy The term "shiduzhe" or "those who have lost their only child," ...
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