[size=14pt]Childcare, Chinese style: Rickshaw driver chains two-year-old son to a post while he's at work[/size]
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 4:03 PM on 04th February 2010


At first sight it seems the ultimate in child cruelty - a two-year-old boy chained to a lamp post to stop him getting away.

Yet his parents say this is the only way they can guarantee not to lose him.

His father Chen Chuanliu works as an unlicensed rickshaw cyclist in Beijing, taking fares all over the city, while the boy's disabled mother collects rubbish at the roadside.
Two-year-old Chen Chuanliu is regularly padlocked to a tree while his rickshaw driver father touts for customers in Beijing

They say they secured their son, Lao Lu, with a padlock around his ankle because his four-year-old sister Ling was 'stolen' from them last month.

Child snatching is rife in China, where strict laws govern the size of families.

Concerned passers-by spotted the shackled toddler outside Huaguan Shopping Mall in Liangxiang.

They reported his father to the authorities, who yesterday ordered him to remove the chain although it was not clear what arrangements he would make in future.

There is no nursery place for Lao Lu because his 42-year-old father is a migrant worker from another province, Szechuan, and therefore does not qualify for state help. The family live in one room, 9ft by 8ft.

Chen said he could not afford to pay for childcare on his earnings of £4.50 a day and had refused offers of 'a lot of money' to give his son up for adoption.

'My wife cannot take care of him and I have to work to support my family. So I chain him to a pole when I have a fare.

'I don't even have a picture of my daughter to use for a missing-person poster. I cannot lose my son as well.'
Father's pride: Rickshaw driver Chen Chuanliu with Lao Lu

Chen Chuanliu insists chaining up son Lao Lu is for his own good

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Sad story of poverty.

Beaf:

Sad story of poverty.

Beaf,
You ever been to China? I was there recently.
Not that there's no poverty there, mind you. But it's not any different from what I've seen elsewhere, in Europe, and the US, and even in some 'affluent' Middle East cities like Dubai.
Of course I did not see everywhere in China, as that is humanly impossible. But I saw enough to conclude that most of what we know and say about them is just Western bullcrap propaganda.
Nigerians no even get mouth where poverty is concerned. We're all about poverty.

This is just some Western media crap story.

Move this to a western forum, perhaps you'd find more commentators that will stoop to your level there . Poverty affects almost every nation now, what's new.

AjanleKoko:

Beaf,
You ever been to China? I was there recently.
Not that there's no poverty there, mind you. But it's not any different from what I've seen elsewhere, in Europe, and the US, and even in some 'affluent' Middle East cities like Dubai.
Of course I did not see everywhere in China, as that is humanly impossible. But I saw enough to conclude that most of what we know and say about them is just Western bullcrap propaganda.
Nigerians no even get mouth where poverty is concerned. We're all about poverty.

This is just some Western media crap story.

I'm not saying China is poor, far from it. It's strictly about the wretched circumstances of the guy in question and a system that allows a child to be chained. I certainly agree with you that we are all about poverty; the funny thing is that the average Nigerian doesn't realise just how poor he or she is. I posted this link elsewhere; "View the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_African_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita]list of African countries by GDP per capita at Purchasing Power Parity (Zimbabwe is an eye popping 18 places above us, Ghana is 20)[/url] ."

coldhearts:

Move this to a western forum,  perhaps you'd find more commentators that will stoop to your level there . Poverty affects almost every nation now, what's new.

JJC.

I'm not sure what you mean by JJC, but if it's a bad thing then i guess you stooped to another low.
It was just a simple comment but i guess you personalized it for unknown reasons. My sincere regards to you.

AjanleKoko:

Beaf,
You ever been to China? I was there recently.
Not that there's no poverty there, mind you. But it's not any different from what I've seen elsewhere, in Europe, and the US, and even in some 'affluent' Middle East cities like Dubai.
Of course I did not see everywhere in China, as that is humanly impossible. But I saw enough to conclude that most of what we know and say about them is just Western bullcrap propaganda.
[size=18pt]Nigerians no even get mouth where poverty is concerned. We're all about poverty.[/size]

This is just some Western media crap story.

coldhearts:

I'm not sure what you mean by JJC, but if it's a bad thing then i guess you stooped to another low.
It was just a simple comment  but i guess you personalized it for unknown reasons. My sincere regards to you.

JJC.

AjanleKoko:

Beaf,
You ever been to China? I was there recently.
Not that there's no poverty there, mind you. But it's not any different from what I've seen elsewhere, in Europe, and the US, and even in some 'affluent' Middle East cities like Dubai.
Of course I did not see everywhere in China, as that is humanly impossible. But I saw enough to conclude that most of what we know and say about them is just Western bullcrap propaganda.
Nigerians no even get mouth where poverty is concerned. We're all about poverty.

This is just some Western media crap story.

looooooooool

that is why the chinese don't want to accept every terms of the western propaganda or whatever

they believe in themselves