While Hong Kong does some soul-searching over a recent spate of student suicides, a couple of government moves over the past week barely made the news but raised my eyebrows all the way to the ceiling. The first was advice from the Education Bureau for parents to spend at least a few minutes a day talking and listening to their children. The second was the news that the government was pushing ahead with a pilot project to train grandparents as child carers so that mothers could be freed up to join the workforce. I wonder how many people batted...
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