Chinese woman seeks domestic help for university student daughter ‘who never washed clothes or cooked before’
- Mother says she and husband are too busy with work to clean up after their daughter each day
- Survey finds a third of people think adults should know the basics of housekeeping
A businesswoman from central China who said she was too busy to look after her university student daughter and advertised for a domestic helper to do the job has stirred an online debate about how much responsibility parents should take for their children.
The woman, surnamed Liu, who lives in the Hubei city of Xiangyang, posted an advert on WeChat for a woman aged between 45 and 52 to cook, clean and do laundry for her daughter, a freshman at a university in the same city, news website Pearvideo.com reported on Saturday.
The daughter, whose age was not revealed, lives in a rented flat close to the campus, the report said. Liu said her daughter had never washed clothes or cooked before, but she and her husband were too busy to look after her every day.
“My daughter said she wants a maid there to do household chores for her,” she was quoted as saying. “There are many such cases in her school.”
The video report, which was viewed about 6 million times, divided public opinion in mainland China.