China school attacks linked to mental health?

The latest deadly school rampage shows China is paying the price for focusing on economic growth for decades while ignoring mental health problems linked to the nation's rapid social change, experts say.

A 48-year-old man apparently angry over a property dispute killed seven children and two adults with a kitchen cleaver at a kindergarten in northern China Wednesday -- the fifth assault on schoolchildren in less than two months.

For decades, China had been relatively free of the sort of multiple killings by deranged assailants that regularly seize headlines in the West.

But while cautioning that the causes of the attacks remain unclear, experts say that even as economic reforms have lifted millions from poverty in China, insufficient attention has been paid to psychological health. More...

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