Background Globally, a growing number of children and adolescents are left behind when
parents migrate. We investigated the effect of parental migration on the health of left behind …

The global nutritional crisis, which forms the backdrop for the lives of the 1.8 billion
adolescents in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), has made stunted growth and the …

In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages,
fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children …

Adverse early-life experience such as depriving the relationship between parents and
children induces permanent phenotypic changes, and impairs the cognitive functions …

China's unprecedented economic boom has led a massive number of children left-behind by
their peasant parents who have immigrated to urban areas in search of work. In current …

Using data from the 2010 wave of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we study the
effects of internal migration in China on the emotional wellbeing of children age 10–15. The …

Chinese children are facing dual burden of malnutrition—coexistence of under-and over-
nutrition. Little systematic evidence exists for explaining the simultaneous presence of under …

There are 69.7 million left-behind children (LBC) in China. Using nationally representative
monitoring data for migrant workers aged 15 to 59 years in China, this study sought to …

Background To further optimize birth policy, China implemented a new three-child policy to
allow per couple to have up to three children on May 31, 2021. Methods A national cross …

In recent decades, rural China has experienced a rapid increase in boarding school
enrollment rates and in the population of left-behind children (LBC)(ie, rural children whose …