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Zhang, Donghui – Frontiers of Education in China, 2015
An increasing number of left-behind children has emerged in rural China as a result of the large-scale migration of rural farmers to urban cities since the 1990s. With the absence of parent(s) from the family, the left-behind children face crises in socialization and their relationships with their parents are threatened by physical distance. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latchkey Children, Rural Areas, Rural to Urban Migration
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Yao, Jihai; Mao, Yaqing – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
Left-behind children refer to those left behind by parents working away from home and taken care of by only one of the parents or relatives because one or both of the parents go out to work in the city. By using questionnaires, this study involves 8,627 rural pupils chosen from 10 provinces to examine academic psychological characteristics,…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries