Children Are Victims of DivorcePsychological problems are becoming alarmingly more common among Chinese children of divorced parents, according to a survey of students in Shijiazhuang No. 11 Middle School in north China's Hebei Province.One hundred percent of the 122 students from broken families, or 8.8 percent of the total 1,380 students surveyed, were diagnosed by doctors as suffering from one or more of the eight symptoms in terms of psychological distress including anxiety, fear or loneliness. The proportion of students with the same complaints from two-parent families was 20.8 percent. The survey showed that 58 percent of the 122 students exhibited six or more symptoms of the eight psychological distresses. The survey also found that single parents are often either excessively strict or lenient with their children, or just indifferent to them. China's divorce rate has risen to ten percent, according to statistics. |
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