Three children locked in their homes waiting for a meal in the middle of the night, is this a microcosm of modern society?
When a mother has to leave her child in such an environment just to survive, where exactly is our social safety net?
In Fushan Township, Chengmai County, Hainan Province, three children were locked in their homes by their mothers, waiting for a meal in the middle of the night.
It's not a movie plot, it's something that really happens in real life.
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The protagonist of the story is Xiaomei, an enthusiastic neighbor who shares the plight of these children online.
In the video, you can see that the living conditions of the children are simply terrible, and the house is full of garbage and urine.
Occasionally, local neighbors would bring food to the children through their windows, such as sweet potatoes and steamed buns, as if they were helping to relieve the disaster.
Xiaomei found that the three children, a little brother who couldn't walk yet and his two older sisters, hadn't taken a bath for a few days, and the smell on their bodies could be imagined.
She took the children to the faucet of the neighbor's house to clean them, and when she changed the diapers of the youngest child, she found that it was full of feces and urine, and the child's buttocks were already rotten badly.
There is also a 5-year-old girl in this story, when Xiaomei found her a clean dress, the little girl put it on and asked, "Auntie, is this another New Year?" This sentence made Xiaomei feel very sad.
It turned out that for this little girl, being able to wear a clean dress has become a symbol of the festival.
The children's mother, a young woman under the age of 30, is also living a difficult life herself.
In her early years, she married her husband and had 5 children, but her married life was not happy, which eventually led to divorce, and her husband is currently serving a prison sentence.
Now, she is alone with three children, and in order to make ends meet, she has to work night shifts.
Her relatives helped take care of the two older children, leaving the remaining three to her alone.
After this situation aroused widespread concern in the society, the local government and the Women's Federation quickly intervened to deal with it.
On April 24, 2024, the Chengmai County Women's Federation confirmed the incident and joined forces with multiple departments to take action to conduct an in-depth investigation into the actual situation of the family.
In the afternoon of the same day, the staff of the Fukuyama Town Government provided more support and concrete solutions. They provided the mother and her children with a monthly subsistence allowance of about 3,000 yuan to ensure that the family had a stable source of income.
For the sake of the children's growth and education, the government also placed the three children in a nearby kindergarten to ensure that they can receive education and have a safe daily environment.
At the same time, in order for the mother to take better care of her children, the government found her a flexible employment position so that she no longer had to work at night, so that she could take care of the children at night and work during the day.
The Government also plans to conduct regular visits to the family to ensure that they receive sustained attention and necessary support. These measures demonstrate the Government's determination and efficiency in responding quickly to social problems and in providing practical assistance.
We have to ask, where is the safety net in this society?
In our self-righteous modern society, there are also children who live like post-apocalyptic survivors.
The practice of a single mother who leaves home at night to provide for her family and locks her children in her home during the day sounds like a plot out of a dark age storybook today.
Leaving aside the mother who is struggling on the poverty line, we have to ask, where is the safety net of this society, and in such a situation, social services should have stepped in to provide the necessary assistance and care.
Is there only a meager sympathy and the occasional steamed bun and sweet potato left in the community what kind of reality is it that makes a mother have to choose to work in the dead of night and leave her child in a feces and urine-filled home?
And where are these children, where are their childhoods? Isn't it a great irony to society that a five-year-old girl sees wearing new clothes as a luxury for the New Year?
It's not just poverty, it's a direct reflection of the failure of our social safety net. We urgently need reflection and action, not simple compassion.
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The incident was also a resounding slap in the face to all policymakers, reminding them of the need to put in place more effective support measures to ensure that no child is treated so unfairly because of the family's financial situation.
What we need is not just relief, but a system that can really solve the problem.
What do you think?
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