John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:51 pm

I would say that a lot of these problems are still spinoffs from the bad old days of the KR. Four years and ten months of being told what to do and when to do it everyday probably hasn't helped.

I don't see much connection there. The majority citizens weren't even born then, although it would have had an effect on their parents' or grandparents' education.

That is what I meant by 'spinoff', i.e. the result of something. The effect on those from back then being passed on to subsequent generations who have no idea about how to be a parent.

But I actually said quite a bit before that last line that you quoted.

DeparRudeAnts wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 9:16 pm It seems more than common for new mothers to drop their child off with the grandparents to get out of town to find work.

It's not just for work. In the small street I live there are five families with children. Out of those five, two families have 'dropped' one child with their grandparents, and two have a kid living in which is not theirs, including me. One family is an extended family with grandparents, two kids and their wife and husband & grandchildren living together.

One family dropped one kid because they only want their daughter around, they sent their son off to grandma 300 km down the road.
The other family have left their eldest daughter with the grandparents while leaving for husband's house with just the youngest daughter (living 120 km away).

Those two children are rejected, at least feel rejected, by their parents. Not much good will come from that generally.

But it's a double sided sword.
One family has a kid from a drug addicted mum living in and I have a high school student studying in grade ten living in. As easy as some will send their kid off others will accept them to live with them for a while.

Kammekor wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 7:41 am
Those two children are rejected, at least feel rejected, by their parents. Not much good will come from that generally.

But it's a double sided sword.
One family has a kid from a drug addicted mum living in and I have a high school student studying in grade ten living in. As easy as some will send their kid off others will accept them to live with them for a while.

The adoptive ‘uncle/aunt/guardian’ of a disparate horde does seem quite an easy adjustment, though how well done is another matter.

Freightdog wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 9:18 am

Kammekor wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 7:41 am
Those two children are rejected, at least feel rejected, by their parents. Not much good will come from that generally.

But it's a double sided sword.
One family has a kid from a drug addicted mum living in and I have a high school student studying in grade ten living in. As easy as some will send their kid off others will accept them to live with them for a while.

The adoptive ‘uncle/aunt/guardian’ of a disparate horde does seem quite an easy adjustment, though how well done is another matter.

Yes, I think that's true if all the kids move at the same time. But if one has to move and the other remains with the parents it's a different matter for the kid's development I'm afraid.

I have heard that Anlong Kong village, Samrong Tong District, Kampong Speu Province is a major center for sex tourism.

I doubt this has anything to do with sex tourism.

Anyone who is seeing sex tourists is obviously hanging out in the wrong places.