Horizon Research Consultancy recently conducted a study in eight Chinese cities from which the following conclusion follows: children under 12 are lacking in sleep and leisure time.
Children residing in China do extracurricular activities, mostly chosen by parents, to occupy their little free time, so you have to subtract from other activities, play or rest. And let's not forget how complicated and slow the displacement in these cities is.
More than half of the children who were surveyed with questions such as what they would spend their free time with, answered that they sleep. We talk about young children, well now after four years, children living in urban areas are already subject to a busy schedule. English, dance, piano or violin, plastic arts or martial arts courses are extracurricular activities with which parents want to expand the training they receive in schools and that they consider insufficient for the competitive future with the one they are going to find, only 10% of parents consider that it is their children who can choose which course or activity they want to take.
But today goes into effect a new law resulting from the revision of the Child Protection Act of 1991 (which was issued in China one year after adhering to the UN Convention on the Rights of Children) that guarantees to children their right to sleep and play.
Basic education, attention to children's mental care and sanctions against crimes such as child labor, child trafficking and abuse are also guaranteed.
The revision of the law implies many other changes, with regard to children, we highlight the shelters for homeless children that the Government will create although they will also be very serious, such as the lack of mandatory birth registration and that an institution verify the welfare of the child.
