{"id":46973,"date":"2015-05-06T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=46973 "},"modified":"2015-05-06T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T23:16:00","slug":"46973-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=46973","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Bereaved Parents Blame Lack of Pension on China\\’s One-Child Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An elderly man sits on a hobby horse at a residential area in Beijing, May 4, 2015.<\/div>
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Hundreds of elderly, bereaved parents from across China protested outside government offices in Beijing on Wednesday over a lack of government support, blaming their poverty on the country’s draconian one-child population controls.<\/div>
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Some 800 elderly people whose grown children have died gathered outside the Ministry for Health and Family Planning in Beijing, holding banners amid a strong police presence, protesters told RFA.<\/div>
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Photos of the protest circulated online showed banners which read: “Who should bear the risk of government policies,” and “If you want to make the Chinese dream come true, ease the pain of bereaved parents!”<\/div>
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Others wore T-shirts with the slogan: “Our family line was severed by the one-child policy!”<\/div>
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“There are a lot of police and police vehicles, as well as buses, outside the Family Planning Commission,” a protester surnamed Zhang said, using the former name of the department. “They plan to escort people home; there are several buses from [the northeastern city of] Shenyang alone.”<\/div>
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He said all of those present had been forced to adhere to the one-child policy during the 1980s, after which their grown children died for various reasons when they were too old to have another child.<\/div>
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“We have nobody to take care of us or keep us, no children, and yet the amount they give us is barely a subsistence level; we can’t live on it,” Zhang said. “If we need to be admitted to hospital, then that’s a lot of money we have to pay.”<\/div>
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Activists estimate that more than a million elderly people whose only child has died have been left with scant financial support in their old age.<\/div>
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The protesters argue that the government owes them a living because they complied with the one-child policy out of a sense of public responsibility, not out of personal choice.<\/div>
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A 53-year-old protester from the northeastern province of Jilin, who gave only her nickname A Fang, said the government is avoiding the issue.<\/div>
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“They can’t avoid this,” A Fang said. “If they evade it today, it’ll still be there tomorrow.”<\/div>
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“The more they try to dodge the issue, the more of a rebellious spirit there will be.”<\/div>
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She said she agreed with the one-child policy, however.<\/div>
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“The one-child policy was correct, but whether it was correct or not, they’ve implemented it, and so they should have thought about the consequences sooner,” A Fang said.<\/div>
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“They have never done addressed this issue properly.”<\/div>
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Calls to three publicly listed phone numbers for the Beijing Family Planning Commission rang unanswered during office hours on Wednesday.<\/div>
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