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An orphan is physically without a mother or father. But there is also the fact that unsupported children, nominally have parents, but in fact can not get the care and support of parents. I recently saw a Chinese movie called Stand By Me. The prototype of this film is Xuan Xuan, abandoned by his parents when he was a child. When he was born, his mother was 20 years old and his father was 19 years old, and they did not get a marriage certificate, and accidentally had him. When he was one and a half years old, his parents broke up and abandoned him. He became the “mistake” of the two young people’s youth. After this incident was reported, it aroused great attention. On January 1, 2020, China officially implemented a protection system for such children, with subsidies and subsidies from all aspects.

These orphans don’t get any real education. Because Xuan Xuan never went to school, he gradually revealed some problems, such as using violence to express emotions and stealing from others. So what happens when these kids grow up? Criminals, actually. There is also a criminal organization in the movie. The surface is to shelter homeless children, but in fact, is to instigate minor crime, using children’s mental immaturity to do bottomless things to accumulate money.

Although there is a system to protect these orphans, I think the security system cannot fundamentally solve the problem. From the perspective of sex education, there are still many people in society who lack sexual knowledge, especially from a psychological perspective, which is crucial to the stable development of the whole society.

Orphan / Meiling Feng / Education Futures: KIPP & Futures Project (2024-25) by Mewling Feng is licensed under a 知识共享署名CC BY 3.0