What do you think about the situation of emotional needs of rural left-behind families?

( I) Lack of sense of security among rural left-behind family members

Overall, rural left-behind families lack a sense of security, the rural young and middle-aged laborers go out and move around, and only old people, children and women are left in the countryside, and the incidents of law-breaking and crime happen from time to time in the rural areas. According to Maslow's theory of emotional needs, the acquisition of a sense of security is the most basic human need. Left-behind women lack a sense of security, and for rural left-behind women, they long for stable families and marriages. After their husbands go out to work, the insecurity of left-behind women mainly comes from the following aspects: left-behind women are worried that the long time separation between father and son will affect the relationship between husband and wife, and may even make husband and wife face the risk of marital change, thus affecting the harmony and stability of marriage and family; they are worried that the property of the family will be stolen, and their personal safety will be threatened; they have to do everything by themselves in agricultural production, and their burden of life is heavier, and their husbands can share their pressure when they are at home. When their husbands are at home, they can share their pressure. For rural left-behind children, the family is an important place for children's socialization, and the parenting style and family environment are especially important for cultivating children's good emotions. With the lack of parental love after their parents go out, left-behind children are insecure about their own personal safety and their own living environment, and at the same time worry about the safety of their parents. The loneliness of the left-behind elderly is also very strong, in short, the rural left-behind family members generally lack a sense of security.

( ii) The lack of affectionate companionship in rural left-behind families leads to conflicts between husband and wife, between parents and children, and between generations

The long-term separation of husband and wife has a greater impact on the fulfillment of the emotional needs of the couple and leads to conflict between husband and wife, and the majority of women left behind in the countryside have a greater sense of stress in their lives; the marital life of the two separate places also leads to a strong sense of loneliness; irritability, Negative emotions such as irritability and depression are obviously aggravated when their husbands go out to work. For the left-behind children, the long-term absence of parents and the lack of parent-child communication between parents and children, the left-behind children's emotional demands on their parents can not be satisfied, affecting the formation of a healthy personality of the left-behind children, and even resentment towards their parents, complaining that their parents can not be around to accompany them. As for the left-behind elderly, they need their children to take care of them and enjoy the happiness of their families when they grow old. However, not only do they not receive care from their children, but they also have to take care of their grandchildren, and they complain about their children being away all the time, sometimes complaining to their children over the phone. As described, the long-term absence of core family members in rural left-behind families has led to obstacles in emotional communication among family members, and even led to violent emotional conflicts, which is in essence a mismatch between the emotional needs and emotional supply of family members.

( 3) Neighbors play a more important role in rural left-behind families

Rural left-behind families lack the companionship of affection, rural left-behind families' emotional needs are also embodied in the interactions with neighbors, left-behind family members have more interactions with neighbors, and the companionship of the neighbors is especially important for elderly people when they are lonely. The circle of activities of the elderly is mostly in the village, and the left-behind elderly often interact with their relatives and neighbors, and the interaction between the left-behind women and their neighbors is regular, helping each other in agricultural production, chatting with neighbors, and confiding in the emotions of life. The playfulness and interaction between left-behind children and peer groups are important elements in the lives of left-behind children, and neighbors play a more important role in rural left-behind families.

( 4) Rural left-behind families long for family understanding

The emotional fulfillment function of rural left-behind families is weakened, and the left-behind family members play more roles, and these roles need to have more understanding and communication with each other. Left-behind women play more roles and need to coordinate all kinds of family relationships and deal with the relationship with their in-laws. Husbands play an important role in the handling of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relations. When husbands go out, left-behind women deal with the relationship with their in-laws by themselves; the burden of educating their children falls on left-behind women, who have a heavy burden of labor and high pressure of life, and they long for amicable family relations and the understanding of their in-laws and children. Some left-behind elderly people play the role of guardians and take the responsibility of educating their grandchildren, longing for their grandchildren's understanding and respect. Left-behind children take on some of the household chores and have to take care of their grandparents while completing their studies, and they long for their parents' understanding and encouragement.

In short, the emotional needs of rural left-behind families are lacking due to the long-term absence of core family roles as a result of the rural young and middle-aged laborers going out to work. They as a whole lack a sense of security, lack of affectionate care, lack of family companionship, intergenerational emotional conflicts occur from time to time, the emotional fulfillment function of the rural left-behind families has weakened.