KCSM Asia Insight May 16, 2016
Children behind at home with their aging grandparents or in some cases alone. This june, four such young siblings committed suicides by consuming pesticides, believed to be caused by loneliness and im positivishment, the tragic news shocked the nation. Roughly 61 million minors reportedly live apart from one or both of their parents in china today. Half of that figure live without either of their parents at home. Such children become especially unstable during the Summer School break when their sense of isolation is at its most desperate. One elderly volunteer checks on children left behind. H...