Family
Background:
Zheng Kang jia's grandparents died
over 20 years ago. Her mother died of stomach cancer when she was
42 years old in 2012 , which left her father by himself to take
care of Zheng Kang jia. Her father was diagnosed with schizophrenia
earlier and right after Spring Festival in 2015, her father's illness
got worse and worse. The village leader told us he started to have
hallucinations and attacked people in the village. He even got into
a woman's bed and tried to rape her. The village leader phoned the
police and with the police's help they managed to get him under
control and took him to the mental hospital. We telephoned the doctor
and the doctor felt that this man will most likely get out of the
hospital in the future but he will need to continue with the medicine
for the rest of his life.
When this girl's mother was still
alive, her father did some odd jobs for income. But after the mother
died they had no income.
The little girl was in the 1st grade
when we visited her in the countryside. We met her aunt and she
seemed to be a very unhappy woman. She obviously didn't want to
help her and she even said if someone wanted to adopt this girl
it would be a great idea. She also said all the family were afraid
of him.
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