The Challenge of an Aging Population
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Research on Aging
- Vol. 8 (2) , 179-199
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027586008002001
Abstract
Policymakers and demographers in China are cognizant of the implications of the one-child family policy for the eventual aging of their nation's population and are beginning to incorporate attention to the elderly into the economic and population policies being developed. A major stumbling block to the acceptance of the one-child family policy, especially in rural areas, has been fear about security in old age. As the one-child family becomes widely established, it will become increasingly difficult for the only child to support two elderly parents.Keywords
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