Jayati Godhawat
JWB Blogger
If You Are In China, You Would WANT To Become A Nanny. Here’s Why!
- JWB Post
- November 2, 2016
The year 2016 was indeed special for China and its citizens. At the beginning of this year, the Government of China finally abolished its one-child policy.
Result: The number of babies born in the first half of 2016 rose by 6.9% in the year before, to 8.31 million. And, approximately, 45% of these were second children, states the country’s National Health and Family Planning Commission.
With this change in policy, there was one occupation that saw a definite surge and came in-demand, Nanny-ing.
According to the MailOnline, “It created an increased demand for childcare professionals and has turned babysitting into an esteemed career with better pay than some mid-level managerial roles.”
Also, more and more rural women in China are taking up professional courses to become qualified nannies at the “Nanny Universities.”
“The eight-day course teaches childcare, early education, housekeeping, and other domestic skills, and costs US$250 (around Rs. 17,000), which is considered expensive for anyone coming from the countryside,” stated the MailOnline.
The images of these women, many of whom are migrants, learning techniques of childcare and babysitting through the use of plastic dolls in a Nanny University in Beijing has surfaced on the Internet.
It’s also reported that these qualified nannies earn nearly 5000 yuan (Approx Rs.50,000) a month, along with the free accommodation and meals typically provided by their employers.
In China, the new mothers confine themselves to the home for at least 30 days to relax and “recover from childbirth” before resuming to their job or work, which gives a lot of scope to this occupation.
There’s another reason why couples hire a nanny. And, it may sound strange but in China,
“Young couples don’t want to be influenced by their parents’ old-fashioned way of parenting, so they would rather spend money to hire an outsider,” said Wang Jiaye, from Shanghai, who has a two-year-old daughter and three-month-old son and hired a nanny shortly after giving birth to her second child.
And, of course, some say that hiring a nanny has become a trend in the country and so everybody wants one for their children.
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