New white paper draws attention to left-behind children’s psychological well-being
… NGO ‘Shangxue Lushang’ published a white paper titled “Mental Condition of China's Left-behind Children 2015”…
The key findings are as follow:
• 15.1% of the children were unable to see their parents for a whole year, even during important events such as Spring Festival, otherwise known as Chinese New Year… • 4.3% of the surveyed children, i.e. 2.6 million, hadn’t received a single phone call from their parents in a year…
• The children suffered from a dramatic increase in depression and anxiety if their parents failed to be with them at least once every three months…
• Almost 70% of children have no idea what their parents are doing…
But CSR efforts in this respect are still in the infancy stage. CCR CSR’s parent trainings, which target parent workers in factories and equips them with the tools to improve communication with their child…Other steps that companies can do include supporting family-supportive policies, providing improved access to information, flexible working hours, family-related leave and family support packages (such as “Workplace Family Spaces”) among others.
… NGO ‘Shangxue Lushang’ published a white paper titled “Mental Condition of China's Left-behind Children 2015”…
The key findings are as follow:
· 15.1% of the children were unable to see their parents for a whole year, even during important events such as Spring Festival, otherwise known as Chinese New Year…
· 4.3% of the surveyed children, i.e. 2.6 million, hadn’t received a single phone call from their parents in a year…
· The children suffered from a dramatic increase in depression and anxiety if their parents failed to be with them at least once every three months…
· Almost 70% of children have no idea what their parents are doing…
But CSR efforts in this respect are still in the infancy stage. CCR CSR’s parent trainings, which target parent workers in factories and equips them with the tools to improve communication with their child…Other steps that companies can do include supporting family-supportive policies, providing improved access to information, flexible working hours, family-related leave and family support packages (such as “Workplace Family Spaces”) among others.