China's left-behind children : caretaking, parenting, and struggles /
"The unprecedented rural-to-urban migration in China over the past three decades has placed the social phenomenon of "left-behind children" at the forefront of sociological inquiry. One unintended consequence of this mass migration is the exponentially increased size of left-behind ch...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18530889 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Who Leaves and Who Stays? Factors Associated with Parental Migration and Caretaking Arrangements
- 3 Caretaking at Home: Grandparenting and One-Parent Caretaking
- 4 Parenting from Afar: Long-Distance Parenting and Short Visits
- 5 "Have You Finished Your Homework?": Parental Migration, Caretaking Practices, and Children's Schooling
- 6 Are Left-Behind Children More Deviance-and Delinquency-Prone?
- 7 Children's Psychological Well-Being: Caretaking Practices, Long-Distance Parenting, and Ambiguous Loss
- 8 Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR