Beijing, China, Aug 29, 2019 / 15:05 pm
Although China announced it was ending its one-child policy in 2015, the effects of the communist regime's controversial measure will be felt for generations to come, an expert has warned.
Amid renewed calls for population control in the face of environmental concerns, a new documentary, One Child Nation, has refocused wider attention on the one-child policy, which capped the number of children for most couples in China from the late 1970s.
In an interview Thursday on EWTN Pro-Life Weekly, Steven Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute, warned that "generations will see their family tree with all the branches shorn away."
"The second generation of only children have no cousins, no aunts, no uncles," he added. "The typical family in China now has four grandparents, two parents, and one child. Maybe two, now. But you can see the family, which has been so important in Chinese culture and history, has now been devastated by the one-child policy."