【新唐人2014年11月18日讯】自古以来，对父母而言，最大的悲恸莫过于“白发人送黑发人”。但是在中国大陆，由于中共的“一胎化”政策和不健全的养老制度，使很多父母在失去了唯一的孩子后，不但要承受精神上的痛苦与煎熬，更是要面临老无所养的艰难困境。这些孤苦无依的老人又被称作“失独老人”。目前，中国大陆正有越来越多的“失独”家庭组成联盟，向各地政府维权请愿。
据《维权网》报导，自11月11号开始，重庆市数百个“失独”家庭，连续3天聚集在重庆市卫生和计划生育委员会门前，要求当局兑现承诺，解决“失独”家庭养老问题，保障他们的基本权益。
这些“失独”父母们有的手举各类请愿横幅、有的唱着失独歌、也有的人举着写满冤情的诉状在卫计委门前静坐等待。但是令他们失望的是，直到他们嗓子唱哑了、腿坐麻了，也没有见到一名政府官员出来进行任何回应。直到第三天，才有官员接见了几名“失独”代表，敷衍了一句“看情况尽量解决问题”，就将等待了几天的请愿“失独”父母们打发离开。
近年来，类似的“失独者”维权事件一直在大陆各地频繁的上演着。
11月10号，陕西一百多名“失独”父母到陕西省政府请愿，要求解决老无所养的问题﹔9月22号，来自天津、辽宁、吉林、河南、湖北及新疆五省一市的“失独”者，分别前往当地卫计委、政府部门维权，并打起“兑现承诺是国家的责任”等横幅抗议﹔5月25号，全国各地500名“失独”父母聚集北京“国家卫计委”抗议示威，要求当局修改“计划生育法”，尽快出台对“失独者”有实质意义的帮扶政策……
从各地“失独者”请愿的诉求可以看出，生存艰难和养老问题是他们面临的主要困境，绝大多数“失独”家庭经济相当困难，但当局直到现在还没有建立任何对“失独”老人的抚恤、养老、意外伤害和医疗保险等专项安抚制度。
安徽“失独者”胡丽英：“诉求就是叫政府让我们这些失独者老有所依！”
《新唐人》记者：“那国家有给你们补助甚么吗？”
胡丽英：“有是有，少的很呢！”
据中共政协统计显示，“失独”老人中60%以上患有抑郁症、50%的人患有高血压、心脏病等慢性疾病﹔患癌症、瘫痪等重大疾病的有15%﹔一半以上“失独”老人有过自杀倾向。
江苏省启东“失独”母亲馀哲南：“我也不敢考虑我老了会怎么样，所以到我老了，我觉得我不行了，我就早点结束自己的生命吧，这个国家也没有办法指望它。”
几乎每一名“失独者”，提起计划生育政策，都会痛恨不已。他们质问当局，为甚么在强行推行计划生育的时候，喊出了“只生一个好，政府来养老”的口号。而当他们失去唯一的孩子后，政府却对他们不闻不问，当初的承诺兑现在了哪里？
胡丽英：“没有人照顾啊！哪有人照顾我们啊？我们自己照顾自己。那个时候是叫我们只生一个不准生第二胎啊！现在他们上访就是讲这个呗！”
2012年6月，100多名“失独者”进京，向原中共国家计生委递交了《要求给予失独父母国家补偿申请》，得到的答复是：“没有法律依据。”短短两年，这份补偿申请上的申请人数已经超过了3千人。今年8月，他们再次向法院递交诉状，起诉卫计委并要求赔偿，但法院决定不予立案。
河南驻马店“失独”母亲谢金兰：“我现在感觉国家政策对我们‘失独’家庭不公正，不公平。我们是这种政策的受害者，为啥没有给我们一分钱的补贴？”
据中共卫生部2010年统计数据显示，中国“失独”家庭已经超过100万户。而民间统计数字则远远高于官方给出的数据。
2013年，人口学专家易富贤根据人口普查数据推断，在不久的将来，中国或将有1000万家庭成为“失独”家庭。
采访/陈汉 编辑/张天宇 后制/舒灿
"Loss of Only One Child" Family Alliances Defends their Rights
Since ancient times in China, the greatest grief for parents,
is to see the death of their child.
But in today's Mainland China, due to the "one-child" policy
of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
and the defective pension system,
many parents who lost their only child, not only
have to endure the mental pains and suffering,
but to also face the predicament of having no descendants
supporting them.
These helpless old people are also known as
"Old People Losing their Only One Child".
Currently, there are more and more families in China,
who have faced the predicament of losing their only one child,
who are now forming alliances to claim rights from
local government bodies.
According to Weiquanwang (Human Rights Defenders Website),
since Nov. 11, hundreds of families in Chongqing city which
"lost only one child",
gathered together for three days in front of Chongqing
Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission(HFPC).
They required the authorities to fulfil their commitments
and to address the pension issues of the families with
"losing only one child", protecting their basic rights.
These parents who "lost only one child" sat in front
of the HFPC office, some waving banners,
some sang songs of losing only one child,
and some holding a petition with grievance complaints.
But to their disappointment, after singing so long their voices
became hoarse and legs got numb from sitting,
no government official showed up to help these people.
Until the third day, some officials interviewed
a few representatives of the families
which "lost the only one child",
and gave a perfunctory reply "we will try our best to solve
the problem depending on the situation".
Then these petitioners were sent back.
In recent years, China has witnessed similar and frequent
occurances of parents petitioning the loss of one child.
On Nov 10, more than one hundred parents who lost
their only child,
petitioned at Shanxi Provincial Government, asking they resolve
the issues of old people's pensions;
On Sept 22, parents of "losing the only one child" from Tianjin
Municipality, Liaoning Province , Jilin Province, Henan Province,
Hubei Province and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,
all respectively went to the local HFPC and governmental
agencies to hold protest banners,
demanding, "fulfilling the commitments is the responsibility
of a national".
500 parents of "losing their only one child" gathered at the
office of National HFPC in Beijing on May 25,
to protest and require the government to modify the
"Family Planning Law",
and produce the preferential policies as soon as possible,
which have substantial bearing upon those parents
who "lost their only one child"......
As seen from the appeals of all such families, most of them
are experiencing financial difficulties and pension issues.
However, until now the authorities have not yet established
compensation/allowance, pension, accident
and health insurance systems etc for them.
One of such parents Hu Liying is from Anhui Province,
he says "the appeal is to ask the government to secure
the independence problems of us old people
losing our only one child!"
"NTD" Reporter: "So did the government give you any
financial assistance?"
Hu Liying: "They did, but the amount is too minimal
for words!"
According to the revealed statistic information of CCP’s
Chinese People Political Consultation Conference (CPPCC),
amongst these older people, 60% suffer from depression,
50% suffer with high blood pressure and heart diseases,
15% suffer from cancers, paralysis and other major diseases,
and more than half having suicidal tendencies.
Yu Zhenan is a mother of such parents and says:
"I cannot consider what happens when I am old.
At the time when I am old, if I think I am old and cannot sustain
myself, then I will end my life as soon as possible.
I cannot count on this country."
Almost every parent who has lost their only child, have such
discontent with the family planning policy.
They asked the authorities, when implementing their family
planning policy,
why they led us to believe "Only one child policy is good,
the government secures the pensions for parents etc".
But when they (the parents) lost their only one child,
the government treated them with indifference,
seemingly without any care towards them. So where are
the governments original commitments?
Hu Liying: "There is no one to take care of us!
No one to take care of us at all!
We only take care of ourselves.
At that time we were only allowed to have one child
without allowing us to have a second child, ah!!
Now people are appealing for this policy!"
In June of 2012, more than 100 parents "losing their only
one child" went to Beijing,
submitting to the original CCP’s State Family Planning Commission.
"a request for state compensation for parents losing their only one child"
But the reply is: "no legal basis."
Within just two years, the number of applicants applying
for this compensation has exceeded 3,000 people.
In August of this year, they filed a lawsuit
to the court once again,
charging the State Family Planning Commission
and claiming compensation,
but the court decided not to file the case.
Xi Jinlan is a mother from Zhumadian City of Henan Province
who is one of the parents who lost her only child:
"I'm feeling the State Policy is unjust to those who lose
their child. It's unfair.
We are the victims of this policy, why don’t we receive
a penny of subsidy?"
According to statistics of CCP’s Ministry of Health,
in 2010, China's families who lost their only child, amount
to more than one million in number.
The public estimated the actual data of statistics
was much higher than that of the official data.
In 2013, demography expert Yi Fuxian made an inference
based on the census data.
In the near future, China will have 10 million families
to have become a "losing their only one child" statistic.
Interview/ChenHan Edit/Zhan Tianyu Post-Production/ShuCan
据《维权网》报导，自11月11号开始，重庆市数百个“失独”家庭，连续3天聚集在重庆市卫生和计划生育委员会门前，要求当局兑现承诺，解决“失独”家庭养老问题，保障他们的基本权益。
这些“失独”父母们有的手举各类请愿横幅、有的唱着失独歌、也有的人举着写满冤情的诉状在卫计委门前静坐等待。但是令他们失望的是，直到他们嗓子唱哑了、腿坐麻了，也没有见到一名政府官员出来进行任何回应。直到第三天，才有官员接见了几名“失独”代表，敷衍了一句“看情况尽量解决问题”，就将等待了几天的请愿“失独”父母们打发离开。
近年来，类似的“失独者”维权事件一直在大陆各地频繁的上演着。
11月10号，陕西一百多名“失独”父母到陕西省政府请愿，要求解决老无所养的问题﹔9月22号，来自天津、辽宁、吉林、河南、湖北及新疆五省一市的“失独”者，分别前往当地卫计委、政府部门维权，并打起“兑现承诺是国家的责任”等横幅抗议﹔5月25号，全国各地500名“失独”父母聚集北京“国家卫计委”抗议示威，要求当局修改“计划生育法”，尽快出台对“失独者”有实质意义的帮扶政策……
从各地“失独者”请愿的诉求可以看出，生存艰难和养老问题是他们面临的主要困境，绝大多数“失独”家庭经济相当困难，但当局直到现在还没有建立任何对“失独”老人的抚恤、养老、意外伤害和医疗保险等专项安抚制度。
安徽“失独者”胡丽英：“诉求就是叫政府让我们这些失独者老有所依！”
《新唐人》记者：“那国家有给你们补助甚么吗？”
胡丽英：“有是有，少的很呢！”
据中共政协统计显示，“失独”老人中60%以上患有抑郁症、50%的人患有高血压、心脏病等慢性疾病﹔患癌症、瘫痪等重大疾病的有15%﹔一半以上“失独”老人有过自杀倾向。
江苏省启东“失独”母亲馀哲南：“我也不敢考虑我老了会怎么样，所以到我老了，我觉得我不行了，我就早点结束自己的生命吧，这个国家也没有办法指望它。”
几乎每一名“失独者”，提起计划生育政策，都会痛恨不已。他们质问当局，为甚么在强行推行计划生育的时候，喊出了“只生一个好，政府来养老”的口号。而当他们失去唯一的孩子后，政府却对他们不闻不问，当初的承诺兑现在了哪里？
胡丽英：“没有人照顾啊！哪有人照顾我们啊？我们自己照顾自己。那个时候是叫我们只生一个不准生第二胎啊！现在他们上访就是讲这个呗！”
2012年6月，100多名“失独者”进京，向原中共国家计生委递交了《要求给予失独父母国家补偿申请》，得到的答复是：“没有法律依据。”短短两年，这份补偿申请上的申请人数已经超过了3千人。今年8月，他们再次向法院递交诉状，起诉卫计委并要求赔偿，但法院决定不予立案。
河南驻马店“失独”母亲谢金兰：“我现在感觉国家政策对我们‘失独’家庭不公正，不公平。我们是这种政策的受害者，为啥没有给我们一分钱的补贴？”
据中共卫生部2010年统计数据显示，中国“失独”家庭已经超过100万户。而民间统计数字则远远高于官方给出的数据。
2013年，人口学专家易富贤根据人口普查数据推断，在不久的将来，中国或将有1000万家庭成为“失独”家庭。
采访/陈汉 编辑/张天宇 后制/舒灿
"Loss of Only One Child" Family Alliances Defends their Rights
Since ancient times in China, the greatest grief for parents,
is to see the death of their child.
But in today's Mainland China, due to the "one-child" policy
of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
and the defective pension system,
many parents who lost their only child, not only
have to endure the mental pains and suffering,
but to also face the predicament of having no descendants
supporting them.
These helpless old people are also known as
"Old People Losing their Only One Child".
Currently, there are more and more families in China,
who have faced the predicament of losing their only one child,
who are now forming alliances to claim rights from
local government bodies.
According to Weiquanwang (Human Rights Defenders Website),
since Nov. 11, hundreds of families in Chongqing city which
"lost only one child",
gathered together for three days in front of Chongqing
Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission(HFPC).
They required the authorities to fulfil their commitments
and to address the pension issues of the families with
"losing only one child", protecting their basic rights.
These parents who "lost only one child" sat in front
of the HFPC office, some waving banners,
some sang songs of losing only one child,
and some holding a petition with grievance complaints.
But to their disappointment, after singing so long their voices
became hoarse and legs got numb from sitting,
no government official showed up to help these people.
Until the third day, some officials interviewed
a few representatives of the families
which "lost the only one child",
and gave a perfunctory reply "we will try our best to solve
the problem depending on the situation".
Then these petitioners were sent back.
In recent years, China has witnessed similar and frequent
occurances of parents petitioning the loss of one child.
On Nov 10, more than one hundred parents who lost
their only child,
petitioned at Shanxi Provincial Government, asking they resolve
the issues of old people's pensions;
On Sept 22, parents of "losing the only one child" from Tianjin
Municipality, Liaoning Province , Jilin Province, Henan Province,
Hubei Province and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,
all respectively went to the local HFPC and governmental
agencies to hold protest banners,
demanding, "fulfilling the commitments is the responsibility
of a national".
500 parents of "losing their only one child" gathered at the
office of National HFPC in Beijing on May 25,
to protest and require the government to modify the
"Family Planning Law",
and produce the preferential policies as soon as possible,
which have substantial bearing upon those parents
who "lost their only one child"......
As seen from the appeals of all such families, most of them
are experiencing financial difficulties and pension issues.
However, until now the authorities have not yet established
compensation/allowance, pension, accident
and health insurance systems etc for them.
One of such parents Hu Liying is from Anhui Province,
he says "the appeal is to ask the government to secure
the independence problems of us old people
losing our only one child!"
"NTD" Reporter: "So did the government give you any
financial assistance?"
Hu Liying: "They did, but the amount is too minimal
for words!"
According to the revealed statistic information of CCP’s
Chinese People Political Consultation Conference (CPPCC),
amongst these older people, 60% suffer from depression,
50% suffer with high blood pressure and heart diseases,
15% suffer from cancers, paralysis and other major diseases,
and more than half having suicidal tendencies.
Yu Zhenan is a mother of such parents and says:
"I cannot consider what happens when I am old.
At the time when I am old, if I think I am old and cannot sustain
myself, then I will end my life as soon as possible.
I cannot count on this country."
Almost every parent who has lost their only child, have such
discontent with the family planning policy.
They asked the authorities, when implementing their family
planning policy,
why they led us to believe "Only one child policy is good,
the government secures the pensions for parents etc".
But when they (the parents) lost their only one child,
the government treated them with indifference,
seemingly without any care towards them. So where are
the governments original commitments?
Hu Liying: "There is no one to take care of us!
No one to take care of us at all!
We only take care of ourselves.
At that time we were only allowed to have one child
without allowing us to have a second child, ah!!
Now people are appealing for this policy!"
In June of 2012, more than 100 parents "losing their only
one child" went to Beijing,
submitting to the original CCP’s State Family Planning Commission.
"a request for state compensation for parents losing their only one child"
But the reply is: "no legal basis."
Within just two years, the number of applicants applying
for this compensation has exceeded 3,000 people.
In August of this year, they filed a lawsuit
to the court once again,
charging the State Family Planning Commission
and claiming compensation,
but the court decided not to file the case.
Xi Jinlan is a mother from Zhumadian City of Henan Province
who is one of the parents who lost her only child:
"I'm feeling the State Policy is unjust to those who lose
their child. It's unfair.
We are the victims of this policy, why don’t we receive
a penny of subsidy?"
According to statistics of CCP’s Ministry of Health,
in 2010, China's families who lost their only child, amount
to more than one million in number.
The public estimated the actual data of statistics
was much higher than that of the official data.
In 2013, demography expert Yi Fuxian made an inference
based on the census data.
In the near future, China will have 10 million families
to have become a "losing their only one child" statistic.
Interview/ChenHan Edit/Zhan Tianyu Post-Production/ShuCan
