Photo: Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos Women of the World is a series of snapshots of how women live, in honor of International Women’s Day. Here, a young woman from China’s Anhui province talks about how the country’s former one-child policy affected her life.
I’ve had many more options than she did, but China’s one-child policy has still affected my life. I could always sense that having a daughter was a compromise for my parents. I remember overhearing conversations between my mom and my grandmother, who always expressed her desire for a grandson. “Marrying off a daughter is like pouring water out of a jug,” she said. The way she saw things, raising me was a waste.
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