--FILE--A-sinistra dietro il bambino scrive i caratteri cinesi "ba ba', che significa 'padre' in inglese, presso la sua casa in una zona montuosa nel centro della Cina di Hubei
--FILE--A left-behind child writes Chinese characters "Ba Ba", meaning "father" in English, at his home in a mountainous area in central China's Hubei province, 29 July 2015. For the left-behind children surveyed by a non-profit organization named "On the Way to School", 7.7 percent have not got a chance to meet their parents within a year and 2.7 percent even did not have any contact with their parents for an entire year. In 2013, the All-China Women Federation said that there were 61, 025, 500 left-behind children in China. According to the surveyed result listed above, there should be about 4, 700, 000 left-behind children who do not meet their parents within a year and 1, 650, 000 left-behind children who make no contacts with their parents for a whole year. 7, 432 rural students from 14 provinces are involved in the survey on the psychological conditions of left-behind children. For this organization, children are defined as left-behind children as long as one or both the parents leave their hometowns and go to other places to live. Thus, they discover that the ratio of left-behind children amounts to 38.8 percent among all those considered in the surveyed as a whole.
