The Psychological Development Issues Faced by LBC in Rural Areas and How to Address Them

Abstract

As China continues to urbanize rapidly, an increasing number of adults from rural areas are making the move, they choose to leave their families and migrate to the city hoping for a better-paid job. The paper explores the psychological development issues faced by children left behind (LBC for short in the paper) in rural areas and how to address them by means of a literature review. The paper finds that we should raise the awareness of families, schools, and society about the psychological issues besetting the LBC in rural areas, making the families pay attention to the emotional education of the children, the school to assert the importance of psychological education and the government to rectify the undesirable practices and modify some laws that have something to do with urban household registration system.