"Heavy Scale Of Heartbreak" Woman Shares Mom's Diary Entries On China One-Child Policy

If you go back in time in China, there was one policy that drew a lot of international attention. It was known as the One Child Policy. China's one-child policy, established to lower the country's population, required couples to have only one child. Between 1980 and 2015, the population planning initiative was implemented. Several families were devastated by the policy's consequences. Now, a Chinese woman has revealed photos of her mother's personal journal on Twitter, which recounted how she had to make the painful decision to part with her 2-month-old child.

Chenchen Zhang posted photos of two journal entries made by her mother at the time her second daughter was born. She had to give her to her mother—a heartbreaking moment for any mother.

The entries written nearly three decades ago comprised tear-smudged pages that were emotional testimony of the pain she endured. The woman claimed that her mother was forced to send her sister away to her grandmother's house in order to comply with the one-child policy. She claimed that she couldn't understand what her mother went through for a long time while sharing images from her diary. Nevertheless, now that she's become a mother, the tragic entries always bring tears to her eyes.

Woman Shares Mom's Heartbreaking Diary Entries On China One-Child Policy

The caption of the post read, "This diary entry was written by my mom, 34 years ago, on the day when she sent her 2-month-old daughter (my sister) away to my grandma’s because of the one-child policy. I never fully understood the scale of heartbreak until I became a mom myself. I will never not cry reading it."

While the writings are in Chinese, the mother revealed that the contents of the pages are of the final time she nursed her child before bidding adieu. The woman who shared their tale on Twitter was only two years old at the time. According to the mother's note, the little girl also burst into tears of misery simply by perceiving the situation while being completely clueless about what was going on. The responses to the post were heartbreaking.