Economist: Tens of millions of "left-behind children" in China don't see their parents once a year.

According to the estimation of UNESCO, at present, as many as 29 million children in China are forced to stay at home alone because their parents leave home to make a living. Left-behind children in China are bearing huge hidden costs behind economic growth, which cannot be ignored.

In a rural town in Guangzhou, southwest of China, four brothers and sisters committed suicide by drinking pesticides. The oldest is only 13 years old, and the youngest is only 5 years old. The reason is that since their mother left and their father went to work in other places, brothers and sisters have lived a helpless life since then.

The latest issue of British economists pointed out that the left-behind children in China are bearing the huge hidden costs behind the rapid economic growth.

In the past generation in China, about 270 million laborers left their hometown to seek a way out in big cities, thus continuing the largest migration tide in history. Almost all workers who go out to work hard shoulder the livelihood of the whole family, but due to economic conditions and environmental factors, they can't make a living with their children. Gradually, these children have become what people call "left-behind children".

According to the official statistics of UNICEF and the All-China Women's Federation in 20 10, about 6 17 teenagers were left alone in rural areas, like cities in Sichuan and Jiangsu. In fact, more than half of the families have left-behind children. In fact, in many remote villages, the population structure at home is only composed of children and grandparents, which undoubtedly forms a strong contrast for China people who are in the economic tide.

Sacrificial generation

Left-behind children can't have any expectations for the future. They often face emotional instability and violent suicidal tendencies, and are more likely to become targets of sexual harassment or kidnapping. As many as 65,438+1100 million left-behind children in China can only meet their parents during the Spring Festival, even if they want to make a phone call, it will take three months. Judging from the proportion of left-behind children, the youngest often chooses to stay behind at the first time, and the girl is slightly higher. This traditional preference for boys always leads to a higher proportion of men than women in urban population.

In order to seek a better life, earn more money, delay enjoyment, sacrifice children, and cause the prosperity of the city, it is a reasonable choice to have a slightly higher personal income. The persecution of left-behind children and their families is becoming more and more serious, which will undoubtedly make China society suffer more losses and losses in the future.