Psychological adjustment among left-behind children in rural China: the role of parental migration and parent-child communication.
Background Left-behind children refer to those rural children who are under 18 years of age and are left at home when both or one of their parents migrate to urban area for work. Recent findings showed that left-behind children were disadvantaged by developmental, emotional and social problems. Meth...
| Publicado en: | Child: Care, Health & Development Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 162 - 171 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2013
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