"This Hurts Forever": Woman Shares Her Mother's Heartbreaking Tale Under China's One-Child Policy
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A woman took to Twitter to share a heartbreaking story of her mother when she was forced to send her two-month-old daughter to her relative because of the policy.
China implemented a one-child policy to control population growth in the 1980s. The rule limited couples to having just one child and for years, the government claimed it was a major contributor to the nation's economic prosperity. If parents were discovered to have had more than one child, civil servants, government employees and university staff, could lose their jobs. The policy also meant that the second children could not be recorded in China's national household system if parents did not pay a fine, making them legally non-existent and preventing them from accessing social services like health care and education. Although the policy was revoked in July 2021, horrors of the same still exist in minds of many. this diary entry was written by my mom, 34 years ago, on the day when she sent her 2-month-old daughter (my sister) away to my grandma's bc of one child policy.I never fully understood the scale of heartbreak until I became a mom myself. I will never not cry reading it. pic.twitter.com/OS3dY2tl6X
Recently, a woman took to Twitter to share a heartbreaking story of her mother when she was forced to send her two-month-old daughter to her relative because of the policy.
Dr Chenchen Zhang, an assistant professor of International Relations at Durham University in the UK, said in a tweet, "this diary entry was written by my mom, 34 years ago, on the day when she sent her 2-month-old daughter (my sister) away to my grandma's bc of one-child policy. I never fully understood the scale of heartbreak until I became a mom myself. I will never not cry reading it."
