評論
打印
A 24-year-old Chinese-American woman, Li Lin, admitted to drowning her 2-year-old daughter in the bathtub after New York City police received the toddler's autopsy report. The mother faces life in prison for charges of murder, manslaughter and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
在紐約市警方收到了幼兒的尸檢報告之后，24歲的美國華裔女性李琳，承認了在浴缸里溺死了自己兩歲的女兒。這位母親因受到謀殺、過失殺人和傷害兒童三項指控而將要面臨終身監禁。
The incident happened in a second-floor apartment in Brooklyn, New York. At 8 p.m. On March 13, Li was giving a bath to her two-year-old daughter. She was allegedly angry with her daughter at the time for wetting herself, so Li punishing the girl by forcing her head under water until she stopped breathing.
這起事件發生在紐約布魯克林的一間二層公寓里。3月13日早晨8點，李琳正在給自己兩歲的孩子洗澡。據說，因為孩子把她身上給弄濕了，當時的李琳很生氣。所以，這位母親把孩子的頭埋進水里作為懲罰，直到孩子死亡。
The young victim's parents are Fujian immigrants. Li is a full-time housewife, while her husband has a part-time job in a restaurant. The 2-year-old had just returned to her parents from China. It is reported that Li herself had a tragic childhood, which could have caused psychological damage.
這個年幼的受害者的父母都是中國福建的移民。李琳是全職太太，她的丈夫在餐館有一份兼職工作。這個兩歲的孩子剛從中國來到父母身邊。據報道，李琳自己擁有一個悲慘的童年，所以這對她造成了精神傷害。
In fact, the problem of domestic violence is widespread. According to a report on the subject published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2014, the majority of juvenile victims are one of three ethnicities: White (44.0 percent), Hispanic(22.7 percent), or African American (21.4 percent).
事實上，家庭暴力問題是普遍存在的。據2014年美國衛生及公共服務部發布的相關報告顯示，大部分青少年受害者都屬于這三個種族：白人（44%），西班牙人（22.7%），非洲裔美國人（21.4%）。
Luo Shuhua, who has worked at the Child Welfare and Protection Bureau of New York City for more than 28 years, said that every year nearly 50,000 complaints related to child abuse are lodged in New York City. Chinese households account for 3 percent of those cases.
已經在紐約兒童福利和保護局工作了28年多的羅淑華表示，紐約每年都有近5000起投訴和兒童虐待有關的案件。在這些案件中，中國家庭占3%。
Experts acknowledge that cultural differences, a missing sense of belonging and economic pressures place a lot of burden on overseas Chinese parents. Therefore, parent-child relationships often become more vulnerable in these challenging situations.
專家承認，文化差異、歸屬感缺失和經濟壓力給海外中國夫婦造成了很大的影響。因此，在這些充滿挑戰的境況下，父母和孩子的關系經常變得很脆弱。
