The Adaptation of"Semi-left-behind"Children from the Perspective of Family Function
In recent years,great changes have taken place in the movement tendency of China's labor force:migrant workers from rural areas who were attracted to southeastern coastal areas in the last decades have gradually chosen to get employed or start businesses in cities near their hometowns.Their children who are left in the hometowns can be visited regularly by the parents thanks to employment near hometowns,thus these children are in a"semi-left-behind"state,which is different from that of regular children and from totally left-behind children."Semi-left-behind"children in this study refer to children or teenagers who are left behind in their hometown because their parents go out for work and return home periodically within every half a year.The three groups(i.e.,semi-left-behind children,left-behind children,and non-left-behind children)were surveyed to understand the status quo of academic adaptation,psychological adaptation,and social adaptation of semi-left-behind children.The results showed that semi-left-behind children demonstrated enhanced academic,psychological,and social adaptation than left-behind children,but showed weaker adaptation than non-left-behind children,with family function(i.e.,family cohesion and adaptability)mediating the relationships.Educational recommendations for semi-left-behind children in terms of family,school,policies,laws and regulations are discussed.
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