Migrants’ kids at risk: CDRI
Fuelled by poverty and debt, more than a quarter of Cambodian adults migrate, and, in the process, many are leaving behind their children, a new report finds.
Part of a four-year research project on child labour, the Cambodian Independent Research Institute’s The Impacts of Adult Migration on Children’s Well-Being found evidence that children left behind suffer a variety of consequences to which their peers from nonmigrating families aren’t subjected. The loss of parental supervision disrupts family life, and the absence of a breadwinner in the household may translate into day-to-day cash shortages that force children out of school and into work, according to the report. …
Laignee Barron and Cheang Sokha
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants%E2%80%99-kids-risk-cdri
