{"id":2900,"date":"2019-09-25T01:45:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2019-09-25T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:00:27","slug":"chinas-one-now-two-child-policy-turns-39-abandoned-widows-the-invisible-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/chinas-one-now-two-child-policy-turns-39-abandoned-widows-the-invisible-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s One (Now Two) Child Policy Turns 39: Abandoned Widows, the Invisible Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cMrs. Wang\u201d is a ninety-two year old widow. Her husband passed away fifty-four years ago. Her feet were bound <\/strong>when she was a child, and she suffers from various illnesses, so she cannot walk well.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. Wang raised four children.  Her two daughters married and moved away.  She feels that they don\u2019t want to be close to her, because she is so needy and can never give them anything back in return.  Her first son died.  Her second son has a disabling condition known as fibroplasia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although they don\u2019t have much to eat, Mrs. Wang says she is happy that she is still alive, to cook for her second son, who lives with her. She cannot imagine how her son will be able to live without her when she passes away.  She appreciates the encouragement and financial help from our \u201cSave a Widow\u201d<\/a><\/em> Campaign, and is amazed that people from the other side of the earth would come to help her, not asking for anything in return.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week marks the 39th<\/sup>anniversary of China\u2019s One-Child (now Two-Child) Policy, the most massive social experiment in human history, responsible for hundreds of millions of forced abortions and sterilizations.  Forced abortion continues under the Two-Child Policy, as third children remain illegal. A woman from Xinjiang, for example, was forcibly aborted of her third child in 2018, according to an NPR report.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coercive population control in China has also led to the sex-selective abortion of tens of millions of baby girls.  These statistics are as well known as they are tragic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relatively unknown, however, is another enormous demographic group virtually ignored thus far: the elderly, especially widows. To address this, Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers launched our Save a Widow Campaign.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WATCH<\/a> our new video on Saving Widows in China:
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