Caring young Asian mother putting a coat on her daughter at home
Caring young Asian mother putting a coat on her daughter at home

Arts and Sciences’ Lihong Shi says China’s ‘one-child’ policy has left millions of parents lonely

China’s ‘one-child’ policy left millions of parents lonely and financially unstable: study

MSN: Lihong Shi, assistant professor of anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, said that China’s infamous “one child” policy has left at least a million people childless and alone in their old age. Shi collected data from 1980 to 2015 and interviewed nearly 100 Chinese parents who had started their families during this time.