China's one-child policy is one of the largest and most controversial social engineering
projects in human history. With the extreme restrictions it imposed on reproduction, the …

Background Losing a child tragically impacts the well-being and functioning of parents. With
these effects extending beyond emotional, physical morbidity and compromising self …

There is great debate surrounding the demographic impact of China's population control
policies, especially the one-birth restrictions, which ended only recently. We apply an …

It is evident, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic that has physicians confronting death
and dying at unprecedented levels along with growing data suggesting that physicians who …

Background Parents who lost their only child and can not conceive another child, are known
as shidu parents in China. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of post-traumatic …

Family resilience is crucial for individual's psychological health. Previous studies explored
the protective factors of anxiety at the individual level, with less attention paid to the impact of …

Demography, as once advertised on the cover of this journal, is “the statistical study of
human populations.” In the long history of the discipline, tracing back perhaps to John …

Background Losing an only child is a particularly traumatic and heartbreaking event for
parents, which can trigger a lot of emotional responses, including PTSD and suicidal …

Losing an only child is undoubtedly a huge blow that can adversely affect the prefrontal
lobe, a highly sensitive brain region. Neuropsychological evidence emphasizes that …

China's rapid aging has caused widespread concern, but it seems that the situations and
consequences of rapid aging are not adequately acknowledged. This study analyzed the …