5-Year-Old Girl Becomes The Sole Carer Of Her Grandmas, After Her Mother Abandons Her
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While most 5-year-old children are in school or outside playing, little Anna Wang from Southwest China is taking care of her grandmother and great-grandmother. In fact, she is the sole caregiver for both elderly women, a role thrust upon her by circumstances no child should have to endure.
Anna’s father was sent to jail for unknown reasons when she was only 3 months old, and her mother remarried and abandoned the young girl shortly after. Left behind in the remote mountains of Zuyin with her severely arthritic grandmother and 92-year-old great-grandmother, she began gathering food and cooking for them, and undertakes other duties such as cleaning and helping her relatives to the toilet.
A generous neighbor allows Anna to pick vegetables from their farm. She has reportedly told Chinese media outlets that she does this because she wants to, and “wishes good health” for her family. A heartbreaking series of photos, however, show a childhood lost and forgotten.
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5-year-old Anna Wang from China is the sole caregiver for her ill grandmother and 92-year-old great-grandmother
Since her elderly relatives are bedridden, Anna cooks for them and feeds them every day, while other children play and go to school
She undertakes other chores such as cleaning the house, bathing her relatives, and helping them to the toilet
The family lives in a modest house in the remote mountains of Zuyin, Southwest China
Anna wakes up early every morning to begin attending to her duties, and has no other family or friends to support her
When Anna was just 3 months old, her father was sent to jail for unknown reasons
Her mother, who remarried shortly after, abandoned young Anna and left her to provide for her ailing relatives
She stands on a stool and stretches her small body over the stove as she prepares family meals
A generous neighbor who owns a farm allows Anna to take vegetables from it, which she caries on her back
Her grandmother has severe septic arthritis, and can barely take care of herself without Anna’s help
She has reportedly told Chinese media that she does this because she wants to, and “wishes good health” for her family
However, no child should have to endure these circumstances, and Anna visibly mourns the life she could’ve had
A photo of her father is all she has left of her stolen childhood
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This beautiful child. She deserves the best education and life anyone can give her.
the last picture killed me TT
Since the Chinese media has taken up this story is there no one that can help them? Gosh, how will they cope for money to buy warm clothes. Thank goodness for the neighbour letting them take vegetables. My heart is breaking :(
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Curious. Have you offered your help?
Have you?
She's probably not in China, she can't do anything...
OMG! How a woman can abandon her children?????? She's the one who should be sent to prison
This is CHINA. Females babies are abandoned all the time. The U.S. version of this is a young child raising their siblings.
Grace, are you for real?? She's not bad for abandoning a child for a man??
maybe it would of been ok for your mom to abandon you at 5 years old to go be with a man and start a new family? Anyone who abandons a child for their own selfish needs imo, should no longer have children. they are not worthy to have a kid and just dump them just because a better situation comes along.
@kym O'Mahony, You moron, they father was arrested and sent to prison, it's like you don't read or something
My mom abandoned me for a man. But I was lucky enough to be adopted into a caring and loving family. I hope this little girl gets the future she dreams of and deserves. What an angel.
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Find it interesting how the mother is "evil" and "bad" when no comment is made about the father who has also abandoned the family. Imprisoned yes, but still abandoned. I'm not saying I can relate merely noting that men have been leaving their families for another woman for generations and it much greater numbers.
In rural China daughters are worth nothing as the general public live in a very patriarchal system. Many years ago girl children were not even given names as they were deemed not worth one.
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@ Grace Barclay The only one who would even TRY to defend this mother's behavior is the mother herself! Is that you Grace?
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Grace probably left her child for Dck too.
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To all the responses to my comment : thank you. Even negative feedback is feedback. To Nga, no I did not have children. I chose not to. No I am not the mother of the child. I am 54 years old and I have experienced life. Life is not always good for people, most especially for girl children. The majority of the human beings on this planet do not have an easy life.
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Kjorn, a multitude of reasons for a woman to walk away. Not judging this at all. Perhaps her jailed husband was the money maker. Perhaps the new man did not want the other man's child. The mother is not evil or bad.
they are no good reason for a woman to abandon her kid. it's the flesh of her flesh. they are no excuse for that
Grace, the mother is pretty much evil AND bad. Leaving her own child to fend for herself is beyond selfish and horrible. Her father is not around, she doesn't have friends or other family to help and she has to take care of two elderly women. She is thrown into adulthood, while she is only 5. Have you even read the article?
Grace, you are a dumbass.
Grace, may I ask how old are you? Are you in your teen years, or?
This beautiful child. She deserves the best education and life anyone can give her.
the last picture killed me TT
Since the Chinese media has taken up this story is there no one that can help them? Gosh, how will they cope for money to buy warm clothes. Thank goodness for the neighbour letting them take vegetables. My heart is breaking :(
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Curious. Have you offered your help?
Have you?
She's probably not in China, she can't do anything...
OMG! How a woman can abandon her children?????? She's the one who should be sent to prison
This is CHINA. Females babies are abandoned all the time. The U.S. version of this is a young child raising their siblings.
Grace, are you for real?? She's not bad for abandoning a child for a man??
maybe it would of been ok for your mom to abandon you at 5 years old to go be with a man and start a new family? Anyone who abandons a child for their own selfish needs imo, should no longer have children. they are not worthy to have a kid and just dump them just because a better situation comes along.
@kym O'Mahony, You moron, they father was arrested and sent to prison, it's like you don't read or something
My mom abandoned me for a man. But I was lucky enough to be adopted into a caring and loving family. I hope this little girl gets the future she dreams of and deserves. What an angel.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Find it interesting how the mother is "evil" and "bad" when no comment is made about the father who has also abandoned the family. Imprisoned yes, but still abandoned. I'm not saying I can relate merely noting that men have been leaving their families for another woman for generations and it much greater numbers.
In rural China daughters are worth nothing as the general public live in a very patriarchal system. Many years ago girl children were not even given names as they were deemed not worth one.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
@ Grace Barclay The only one who would even TRY to defend this mother's behavior is the mother herself! Is that you Grace?
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Grace probably left her child for Dck too.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
To all the responses to my comment : thank you. Even negative feedback is feedback. To Nga, no I did not have children. I chose not to. No I am not the mother of the child. I am 54 years old and I have experienced life. Life is not always good for people, most especially for girl children. The majority of the human beings on this planet do not have an easy life.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Kjorn, a multitude of reasons for a woman to walk away. Not judging this at all. Perhaps her jailed husband was the money maker. Perhaps the new man did not want the other man's child. The mother is not evil or bad.
they are no good reason for a woman to abandon her kid. it's the flesh of her flesh. they are no excuse for that
Grace, the mother is pretty much evil AND bad. Leaving her own child to fend for herself is beyond selfish and horrible. Her father is not around, she doesn't have friends or other family to help and she has to take care of two elderly women. She is thrown into adulthood, while she is only 5. Have you even read the article?
Grace, you are a dumbass.
Grace, may I ask how old are you? Are you in your teen years, or?