Bereaved parents of only children staged protests in Beijing this week seeking greater compensation, in a sign of one of the far-reaching consequences of China’s recently scrapped one-child policy.
About 700 parents gathered by the National Health and Family Planning Commission on Tuesday, with a smaller group remaining on Wednesday, after officials escorted many of them back to their hometowns.
The protesters want monetary support for “orphaned” parents to be built into new regulations allowing all couples to have two children. China announced its move to a two-child policy in late October but has not yet enacted the change.
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