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Child and Youth Well-being in China (Paperback)
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Child and Youth Well-being in China (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research on Asian Development
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The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who
are in turn that society's future. Making use of data from the
longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of
this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and analysis
of China's younger generations. They assess the economic, physical,
and social-emotional well-being as well as the cognitive
performance and educational attainment of China's children and
youth. They pay special attention to the significance of family and
community contexts, including the impact of parental absence on
millions of left-behind children. Throughout the volume, the
authors delineate various forms of disparities, especially the
structural inequalities maintained by the Chinese Party-state and
the vulnerabilities of children and youth in fragile families and
communities. They also analyze the social attitudes and values of
Chinese youth. Having grown up in a period of sustained prosperity
and greater individual choice, the younger Chinese cohorts are more
independent in spirit, more open-minded socially, and significantly
less deferential to authority than older cohorts. There is growing
recognition in China of the importance of investing in children's
future and of helping the less advantaged. Substantial improvements
in child and youth well-being have been achieved in a time of
growing economic prosperity. Strong political commitment is needed
to sustain existing efforts and to overcome the many obstacles that
remain. This book will be of considerable interest to researchers
of Chinese society and development.
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