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The risk of mothers losing an only child in China

Jiang, Q.; Li, Y.; Sánchez-Barricarte, J.ús.J.

Journal of Biosocial Science 46(4): 531-545

2014

ISSN/ISBN: 1469-7599
PMID: 24103488
DOI: 10.1017/s0021932013000540
Document Number: 581053
China's one-child policy has been quite successful in bringing down the country's fertility level but has produced a large number of one-child families. The risk of one-child families losing their only child has not received enough attention. In this paper, using an extension of Goldman & Lord (1983)'s method to measure widowhood, period life-table data from China's 2000 population census are used to examine age-specific and cumulative probabilities of mothers losing their only child. It is found that a mother faces a 14.94% probability of losing a son, and 12.21% probability of losing a daughter. As the age of first-time mothers increases, the probability of losing a child declines. Urban and rural mothers have different indices regarding the loss of children. Based on these findings the prospects for China's one-child policy are discussed.

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