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1、关于留守儿童英文作文关于留守儿童英文作文Chinas left-behind children hungry for loveFang Zhiqian loves the smell of firecrackers. The pungent, burning chemicals takes the 16-year-oldback to scenarios of family which he often missed during his childhood. Zhiqian was only three years and four months old, when his mother,

2、Xie Kuie left their home at a plain village in Luoshan County of central Chinas Henan Province to look for a job. He was seven, when his father left him and his elder brother and went to join in their mother in eastern Zhejiang Province as a pedicab driver. Zhiqian became one of the left-behind chil

3、dren in China, whose one or both parents work far away from home, leaving them taken care of by their grandparents or other relatives. My parents arent in my most pleasant memories, says Zhiqian. The quiet 12th-grader is reluctant to talk about his childhood, because he always felt lonely at that ti

4、me. As China sped its way from poverty to prosperity, the worlds most-populated country has confronted an old problem - the poor-rich disparity. Chinas vast rural population has begun to enjoy the countrys development, though later than their urban peers, as more and more farmers have moved to citie

5、s to seek fortune. However, its a bittersweet process for most of the wage hunters. While they earn more than they did back home, they pay the price of a family integrality. Children, like Zhiqian, are the prime victims. A report released by the All-China Womens Federation in May reveals that China

6、now has more than 58 million rural, left-behind children. Almost triple the figure in 2006. And over 69 percent of them are under 14. These children are inferior to peers who enjoy full family care. The left-behind are also behind in physical and psychological health and learning, and more vulnerabl

7、e in security. The issue of the left-behind children, which is the concern for millions of migrant workers and their families, is of great importance to Chinas social harmony and stability, says the report. Fangs hometown Luoshan has a population of 730,000, about 90 percent of which live in rural a

8、reas. Since the mid 1980s, more than 220,000 people from Luoshan have moved to work in cities, mainly to Beijing and the eastern coastal provinces. They seek jobs in the construction and catering industry, says Xiong Xingming, head of the countys labor and social security bureau. Almost every family

9、 has at least one member working in the cities and the villages now are only home to the 38-61-99 troops. These three pairs of figures refer to the dates of Womens Day, Childrens Day, and Elderlys Day in China. Faced with the fact that the family yearly income was less than 2,000 yuan (293 U.S. doll

10、ars) in cash, Fangs mother Xie Kuie made the difficult, practical, but heart-breaking choice between attending her two sons and earning more money for the family. Though she insists that she has never regretted her decision, her eyes turn red when she recalls the scene the day she left home for the

11、first time in 1997. Zhiqian cried and went to lay on the ground, holding my legs and yelling dont go. I managed to release myself from his arms. I ran out of the house, starting to cry, Xie recalls. Of course I worried that the boys would not behave when we were not around. But if we didnt leave, th

12、ey might not have enough food, let alone the money for going to school. For Zhiqian, it was hard to adapt the life of being a left-behind child. He remembers clearly the day a classmate gave him the special title for the first time when he was at the third grade. I was scared. I thought it meant tha

13、t my parents were dead and I had become an orphan. I punched the boy, says Fang. The Fang couple found a few means to maintain the connection to their boys, except for a phone call every 10 days. During the regular 30-minute conversation, they mainly talk about the childrens study. Their sons inner

14、thoughts, however, remain unfamiliar territory, which they seldom try to explore. The Fang couple hoped that the sons would be mature enough to understand their leaving was for the best. They thought it would also sharpen the boys independence, but Zhiqian was still young and believed that love come

15、s from their parents caring all the time. My brother and I often asked them on the phone when they would come home. They usually repeated that we would be letting them down if we didnt study hard, complains Zhiqian. They rarely asked how we felt about their leaving. Xie Kuie is ashamed that her sons

16、 see her as neglectful and uncaring. She suffered the pain of irresponsible mother guilt when her sons often mistakenly called her granny as they spent their first summer vacation with them in Zhejiang. But what can I do? Other children in our village live the same life, says Xie. The Fang brothers

17、are now both spending their last year at the Luoshan High School and preparing for the college entrance examination in June of 2010. They board at school and have one day off to see their grandparents some 90-minute ride away. The long-time parental absence has shaped Fang. It has taught him to beli

18、eve that order and disorder in his life were not due to fate or the actions of others, but self-determination. He is no doubt more mature than his peers. He is quiet, cautious and patient. These qualities are often seen on other left-behind children, says Fangs teacher Wang Shihai. He notes that nea

19、rly 20 percent of almost 6,000 students in the school are left-behind children. I often hide from strangers and I seldom talk about my worries with others, Zhiqian says. My brother is even more withdrawn, and he has more pressures on study. He is already getting grey hair. Independent researcher Rua

20、n Mei has closely observed the lives of the children. She has spent four years interviewing more than 3,000 left-behind children in the six major migrant worker-exporting provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui and Henan. She just wrote a book entitled Pains Of The Century: Investigation

21、Into Chinas Left-behind Children. The reality is astonishingly painful. What concerns me is how ignorant we are of the pains of the children. They grow upon their own, says the former reporter of the Huarong Newpaper based in Huarong County of Hunan Province. The 44-year-old woman says two suicide c

22、ases of left-behind children inspired her to look into the issue four years ago. One boy committed suicide for not studying well and another girl drowned herself for being pregnant. Many such cases, including rape and murder, also appeared in my investigation. But the most serious problem that the c

23、hildren face concerns their psychology. More than 40 percent of my child interviewees are obviously impaired, she says. More than 16 percent of the children thought that their parents didnt love them and more than 80 percent said they felt insecure. The left-behind children are usually of low self-e

24、steem, oversensitive, and dont get along with others. Many hide their emotions and pretend to be happy. Their pains are like the moon during the day; invisible but its still present, she says. The left-behind children issue has aroused the attention of the Chinese government. A special work team, le

25、d by the State Council, was set up to establish a long-term strategy to protect the legitimate rights and interests of left-behind children through laws and regulations. In addition, some local governments have provided left-behind children allowance for their living and medical care, while the Mini

26、stry of Education has built and renovated more than 10,000 boarding schools in central and western China to ensure the children receive an appropriate education. However, Ruan insisted that family and school, the main caregivers for the children, are the key to tackle the problem. The educational le

27、vel of adults supervising these children is generally not that high. Often they can only care for the childrens safety and daily living, but their educational, behavioral and spiritual needs, says Ruan. She suggests that family education should be added in the vocational training programs for migran

28、t workers to teach how to communicate and educate the children. Psychology courses and psychological teachers should be introduced in schools. Regular letters from their parents and chats with teachers are the best remedy, says Ruan. Xie Kuie went back to Luoshan in the last June to take care of the

29、 sons till they finish the college entrance examinations. She rents a flat in downtown and sends meals to the two boys everyday. Although she is still worrying about the expense of their college education, she hopes the rare reunion would help their studies. Her return is a great encouragement for Z

30、hiqian, who said his happiest moments now were when he has lunch with his brother and mother. Now I have people to talk to about my troubles and worries. I feel supported, he says. In the future, Xie Kuie and Zhiqian have different pictures: Xie hopes she can support her two sons while they finish t

31、heir college education. Then she will renovate their house. Zhiqian dreams of studying economics at university and going back with that knowledge to develop his hometown after graduation. Then, nobody will need to leave home to earn money and there will be no left-behind children anymore, he says. L

32、eft-behind kids in Chinas citiesHEFEI: Xiao Yi (pseudonym) from a well-off family in an east Chinas provincial capital seems to have everything that children of her age desire, but she appears autistic and ill-tempered.When at home, the seven-year-old often quarrels with her parents. She has even run away from home a couple of times.This is a result of her childhood experience, said her mother regretfully, in Hefei, capital of Anhui Province. Xiao Yis parents, both born in the late 1970s, a