From the Chinese Press

Left-behind kids demand care

A 9-year-old boy in a rural county of Anhui province hanged himself recently after getting to know that his mother, who works in a city, would not return home for the Spring Festival holiday. The mother's inability to return home for the Lunar New Year may be the direct cause of the suicide, but the tragedy also reveals the plight of many left-behind children in rural areas, says an article on gmw.cn. Excerpts:

Chinese media reports say the boy's parents divorced two years ago, and since then he had been living with his maternal grandparents and not seen his mother.