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...children thrive in their environment and to enhance their performance in relation to their peers, the parents strive to maximise their educational and social opportunities, often at great financial or personal cost. At the same time, the parenting practices and beliefs of my participants are influenced by the cultural values of the society they grew up in. [Women holding...

...Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong, found that the suicide rate had dropped from 23.2 per 100,000 people in the late 1990s to 9.8 per 100,000 in 2009–11. This astonishing 58 per cent drop comes at a time of great movements from the countryside to the city, of just the same kind that South Korea saw in the recent past. And yet,...