The Study On Left-behind Children's Sense Of Belonging To The Family In Rural Areas

Children are the flowers of our motherland and they are also the successors of our nation's future. In order to make their children talented, parents put all their energy and hopes on their children. Their greatest concern is whether their children are growing in good health and shape. However, the left-behind children in rural areas are not enjoying the right care. Parents go at their work to the big cities with their children at home, thus left-behind are being in the dilemma of "daily life is not guaranteed, learning without guidance, emotional desire is in a state of hunger ".Parents' affection and protection for their children is the base of healthy development of children's emotions. It's irreplaceable. However, one parent is of a long-term absence for the education of his or her children, the other one is undertaken the whole responsibilities. Therefore, the original double structure becomes a single one and the function of the education of the family is obviously weakened. When both parents go out, it is the guardian or children themselves take responsibility of education. In addition, the lack of the intimate, direct, face-to-face communication and interaction between children and their parents, easily lead to the children's negative emotions and are detrimental to timely release of their psychological pressures.This paper is mainly following the research method of the case interviews, literature research and observation, and the documents from domestic and home, used for theoretical literature studies are gotten as comprehensive as possible, and the documents are got the good arrangement, analysis and classified in the paper. This study follows the research approach of "raising questions, investigating the problems, analyzing the problems, and solving the problem", bases on the empirical materials of studies on documents and on the on-the-spot interviews. According to some relevant theories of Sociological and Psychological knowledge, the author of the paper chooses her hometown—the Village Xiaosi as the object of the case study to analyses the impacts of the incomplete family structure and the lack of family education on the construction of left-behind children's sense of belonging to the family. Combining with the results of the survey the author of the paper tries to summarize the relevant factors about the sense of belong of the left-behind children:family values, family education situation, the relationship between parents and their children, and the reality of living without family love. The author further elaborates how the sense of belonging plying a role to affecting the left-behind children's socialization process and use Primary Group theory, Social Role theory and Requirement theory stressed analyzes the influence "family, family education, parent-child relationship" do to the children's socialization. Accordingly, the author puts forth feasible measures and recommendations from the level from school, family and social politics, which are of certain reference value to the study of the left-behind children.