The violence and poverty

My cousin had a baby in 1990, China. She is eight years older than her husband. They had the baby a year after their marriage. I did not visit them that often back then, and I was too little to know what was going on too. One or two things that I remember was sometimes when I went to visit my untie, my cousin Fang would come too with tears and the baby in her arms. I did not ask anything, and my parents were talking to her, while I was playing with the baby. Later on in 2 years, I started to notice what was going on. Baby's dad beat the mom the the baby at home. Mom tried to protect the baby, and she normally got hurt worse. I was shocked. I also noticed that baby did not understand too much, but whenever someone said or showed the sad expressions, baby was about to cry every time. Now when I recall what happened, I think actually baby could feel exactly what was going on in the family, and he was hurt physically an mentally. Now the baby was a young man, but I still can feel the strong sadness from him. He is never too happy or too excited about anything. He is always very very close to his mom. His parents divorced when he was six. He does not want to see or even talk about his father at all. I should say the violence that he had in his early childhood had really bad influence on him. I am also glad that he has the infinite love from his mom which supports him to grow up and face the world.
He is very sentimental and sensitive. He does not like people talking in a loud voice, especially when he was little. He would cry if someone talked in a loud voice, because he would think people were arguing or quarreling.
Poverty is another big issue in China, especially in the Southwest. Children live in mountains, they do not have fresh meat or vegetable to eat, they do not have proper shoes to wear and they do not have roads for them to walk on. Children there  basically eat pickles all year long. If they need to go to school, they have to walk 10km per day on the mountains, and they do not have hiking or even proper shoes. Those children are tinier than the other children of the same age, as they do not have enough nutrition for them. The living environment can be bad as well. Therefore, most children will have health problem. China's government is trying to help them in different ways, but it is going to take a long time to solve the problem and improve their living condition.