Soft Parents
Too Many Tropes? On the futility of “labeling” parents
A recent Global Times English edition article ("Soft Parents Make Kids Raw to Life's Cruelties," Oct 8, 2011, see our previous post here ) discusses an unfortunate trend in Chinese society: teenage suicide. In the past couple of years, a number of adolescents have killed themselves for reasons often related to the pressures of school – in one case a group of teens made a suicide pact in order to “die and not have to do homework anymore” and in another instance a group of young people caught cheating on an exam made a pact to “die without being punished in front of their classmates.”
