Everything that comes with death is often more terrible than death: groans and spasms, discolored faces, crying of relatives and friends, mourning and funerals ... "(Francis Bacon's On Death) There are a group of parents in the world who probably understand Bacon's words better than anyone else. Most of them are in their fifties. For more than 20 years, they have lived happily with their only child.
Just as they happily bought a new house and prepared a dowry for their children, an accident took their young lives. As a result, they fall into unimaginable pain: when they are old, they can no longer have children. Every family reunion festival, they have to avoid relatives and friends in order to avoid touching the scene; However, the children's voices and voices can be vividly remembered almost every moment.
This always brings tears to their eyes. Society calls them "parents who have lost their parents". According to experts' estimation, there are more than one million families who have lost their independence in China, and at the same time, 76,000 new families have lost their independence every year. On the one hand, "parents who have lost their children" are suffering from the pain of losing their children, on the other hand, they are all facing problems such as old-age care and medical care. Inspector of the former State Family Planning Commission,
Miao Xia, former chairman of the China Population Welfare Foundation, said: "If we don't solve this problem well, we will be irresponsible to the people." Parents who have lost their parents, a once neglected group, are entering the public eye. Most of them were born in 1950s and 1960s, catching up with the first batch of one-child policy in 1980s, and their only child died in middle age.
Experts estimate that there are at least 1 10,000 families who have lost their independence, and 76,000 families lose their independence every year. According to the data of Beijing Family Planning Association, as of May 20 12, the number of parents who lost their single child in Beijing was 7746, including 6477 in rural areas 1269. "This group is older, physically and mentally poor, and life is difficult."