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Quake Grief Compounded for Single-Child Chinese Families

Posted May 15, 08 9:26 CDT in World 

(Newser) – Thousands of parents in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province are grieving for their children today and for most, the misery is particularly heart-wrenching because they have lost their only child, reports the New York Times. China's one-child policy was strictly enforced in the poor and populous province, and the quake took a heavy toll on its young as schools collapsed.

"Our grief is incomparable,” said one man as he and his wife clothed their daughter's naked body in the morgue. “We got married late, and had a child late. She is our only child.”

Sources New York Times, Los Angeles Times

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Relatives cry as rescuers search for victims in the earthquake-affected Dujiangyan of southwest China's Sichuan province Wednesday, May 14, 2008.   (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
Relatives of earthquake victims burn incense as a last tribute to the dead near the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan, southwest China's Sichuan Province Thursday, May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Rescuers search for victims in the debris of the collapsed Juyuan Middle School at the earthquake-affected Juyuan Township in Dujiangyan in southwest China's Sichuan province, Wednesday, May 14, 2008.   (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
A history text book on China lays amongst the rubble of a collapsed school in Dujiangyan, southwest China's Sichuan Province Thursday, May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Relatives of earthquake victims cry at a funeral house in Dujiangyan, southwest China's Sichuan Province Thursday, May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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