Childcare

Briefs, February 24, 2013

24 Feb 2013

Boyfriend arrested over harbour body

The 43-year-old boyfriend of a woman found dead beneath a Cotai Water Jet ferry has been arrested for murder. The 37-year-old woman's naked body was...

Up close & personal: finding your place in your child's affections

24 Feb 2013

"I love you daddy," my son told me the other week. It was a heart-warming moment. That is, until he went on to list everyone else he loved

Relationships: routines after separation

27 Jan 2013

Young children don't like change, especially at times of uncertainty and major upheaval in their lives - they want and need all the routines for them to feel safe.

Unnamed Thatcher-era Conservative politician accused of child abuse

4 Nov 2012

A BBC news programme has aired a report in which two men claimed they had been abused by a top politician, setting off intense speculation on the internet as to his identity.

Someone to watch over me

28 Aug 2011

The day Wing's mother started work as a part-time waitress was his first experience of being left home alone. It was winter last year; he was eight years old, and his brother, Han, was just three...

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Mothers urge after-school tutorials so they can work

A group of mothers from poor families chose the UN's International Day for the Eradication of Poverty yesterday to call for schools to provide after-school care and tutorial classes so they can...

Welfare group pushes for improvement in childcare services for low-income families

The government should improve childcare services to help underprivileged families in which the mothers have to stay at home instead of going to work, a group of protesters said yesterday.

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Women want tax breaks, better childcare

Nearly half the women aged between 20 and 39 would consider having a child if the government provided tax concessions and better childcare services, a study has found.

Government should do more to help problem parents

A number of incidents in Hong Kong have indicated that our child welfare policy and the lack of support for parents to care for their children should be carefully reviewed, for the sake of the...

Share city's wealth with needy, marchers urge chief executive

Welfare groups yesterday used the festive occasion to remind Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen that it was time to give more attention to the underprivileged as the government's coffers fill...

Government must provide more childcare facilities

A further accident at the weekend involving a child should arouse the public's concern about those children who are left without care ('Home-alone alarm after boy badly hurt in blaze', September...