Amidst all the reporting of the Chinese earthquake this week, one report has seemed particularly poignant to me - mainly because it links to work we have done on the Chinese one child policy. The collapse of school buildings and the loss of young lives would be a tragedy anywhere but in China , where most of the children have no siblings, it is particularly significant. Many parents have lost their only child and some communities have lost an entire generation of children. The image above shows rescuers searching in the rubble of Juyuan Middle School in the south west of Sichuan province. Click the image to link to some news reporting on the BBC website which recounts the tragedy in the context of the one child policy.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
A lost generation of children
Amidst all the reporting of the Chinese earthquake this week, one report has seemed particularly poignant to me - mainly because it links to work we have done on the Chinese one child policy. The collapse of school buildings and the loss of young lives would be a tragedy anywhere but in China , where most of the children have no siblings, it is particularly significant. Many parents have lost their only child and some communities have lost an entire generation of children. The image above shows rescuers searching in the rubble of Juyuan Middle School in the south west of Sichuan province. Click the image to link to some news reporting on the BBC website which recounts the tragedy in the context of the one child policy.
