Nov 17, 2019
Since Deng's reforms brought prosperity and some liberalization in the PR, raising children in China become harder and confusing. Ambitious parental expectations of Confucian piety and quasi-capitalist ambition conflict with the spoiled attitudes of many 'little emperors' from the one child policy period. Parents invest lots of time and money in tutors, private schools ..., but children suffer under the competitive pressure, especially in boarding programs. Some -especially teens don't accept the family's ambitions, sometimes even landing in private reformatories.