Child development in rural China: Children left behind by their migrant parents and children of nonmigrant families

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 120-136

  Wen, Ming ^a   Lin, Danhua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD WELFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CUSTODY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SATISFACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIALIZATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, ABANDONED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LEGAL GUARDIANS; MALE; PARENTING; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIALIZATION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84856254354     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01698.x     Document Type: Article

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