PTI |
August 10, 2015
BEIJING: China’s rural areas have over 61 million “left behind” children with a “motherless village” accounting for 132 abandoned kids, highlighting the plight as they are neglected by their parents in pursuit of jobs in cities, even as reports said girls living in such conditions are most vulnerable to sexual offences.
Huangjing village in central China’s Hunan province’s Shaoyang county has 132 kids living without their mothers earning the “motherless village” tag. It once again puts the spotlight on the problem of migrant-workers’ children, or what are called “left-behind children”, in China, state-run People’s Daily reported on Sunday. All these 132 children are school-age kids with oldest ones attending middle school. Around 116 are motherless because their mothers either remarried or simply left home without returning while the mothers of the rest passed away, the report said.
