A Research On Problems Of Rural Children Beyond Parental Custody In Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture Of Yi Nationality

Nonparental-custodied children, a special social group, who has come into form (and kept increasing) with the (ever-lasting) enlargement of mobile population recently, can be roughly divided into two categories, urban subgroup and rural subgroup, and the latter one is confronted with more tougher problems in their existence due to the gap between cities and rural areas in terms of uneven development. Recently, with urbanizing acceleration more and more peasants, (especially those in remote barren mountains,) who are no longer willing to be"The Catchers In The Rye", have kept abandoning unfertile soil in their homeland to hunt more opportunities for easier survival and better life, thus leaving more and more rural children alone at home but far beyond necessary care and guidance by their parents. Such a phenomenon has become an enormously urgent challenge. For those rural children, at their sensitive, defiant, fickle ages during which they badly need but unfortunately lack necessary care, proper guidance and irreplaceable love from their parents, are deeply stuck in series of thorny troubles such as their moral character shaping, schooling record, mental health and personal security. This paper, based on its writer's investigations into three schools in the two counties, Shaojue and Butuo of Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture of Yi Nationality, Sichuan Province, presents analytic studies of the family backgrounds of those nonparental-custidied children including parents'current occupations, children's custody, their daily life, schooling and recesses, Besides it aims to dig out the causes from society, families, schools or custodians and children'ego problems, revealing a society, under the guidance of certain government policies, provides a macrocosm, that families, adapting itself to the social change, function as the key, and that schools or custodians work as an auxiliary either to worsen or to lighten and even depose its impact. Therefore, it is strongly suggestive that an integrated and holistic approach be taken which includes revising the policies relevant to the emergency of the nonparental-custodied children in the rural areas, safeguarding their educational right, implementing equal rights for their education, attaching great importance and giving full play to schools'advantage, and strengthening the building and administration of boarding schools. In conclusion advocacy is put forth that nationwide sympathy and concern be appealed with those children, those children's life level and education condition be improved as the most immediate task and the long-tern institutional reform go along together with the optimization of their life and education.