China’s ‘Left Behind’ Children

Millions of Chinese children are being raised by their grandparents in rural China as their parents left to find work in urban areas.While there are no official figures, a recent government report puts the number of “left behind” children at nearly 10 million, though child welfare experts estimate the number to be closer to 60 million.In the case of the Luo family grandparents, who are elderly and poor, they do what they can to meet the basic needs of four children between the ages o