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The Status of Left-behind Children in Rural Areas under the Background of Parents’ Migration
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Abstract
The group of left-behind children in China has long been characterized by large-scale and numerous challenges, among which the education of left-behind children has been the center of attention and a contentious topic. In China, there were 170 million rural migrant laborers by 2022. Rural migration may have a significant positive influence on the families, communities, and work force of the migrants as well as on themselves personally. It is important to investigate how these massive rural migratory workers affect the family unit, particularly their children. The object of this paper is the left-behind children in rural areas under the background of parents’ migration. There are two main research directions: the first is the behavioral problems of left-behind children in rural areas under the background of parents’ migration and the causes and countermeasures of the behavioral problems; the second is the education status of left-behind children in rural areas under the background of parents’ migration. Children whose parents migrated had a considerably greater overall frequency of behavior problem than children who were not left behind. When one parent migrated, the likelihood of problem behavior in the children was much higher when the mother migrated than when the father migrated. Children’s academic performance is significantly influenced by aspects related to education, including family education spending, involvement in education, and supervision in school.
Keywords
parental migration, left-behind children, behavior problem, education
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Yu,T. (2023). The Status of Left-behind Children in Rural Areas under the Background of Parents’ Migration. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,18,40-45.
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