Parents must let kids leave the nest
American journalist Roseann Lake has investigated into the Chinese phenomenon of the “leftover woman”, referring to a woman who is supposedly “too successful to marry, but disrespected without a man.” ("All the Shengnv Ladies", Salon.com, March 11, 2012). In her research, she found that many “leftover women” are actually rather young, but sent by their paranoid parents into a frenzy to marr...