Childcare in China: Migrant Worker Chains Son to Lamp Post While He Runs Rickshaw

Child-care in China: Chen Chuanliu chains four-year old son to lamp post on streets of Beijing to deter abductors, while he and his wife, who is disabled, work.

Chen Chuanliu, who works as an unlicensed rickshaw cyclist in Beijing, says he has no choice but to leave his two-year old son. Lao Lu, chained and padlocked to a lamp post to stop him from getting away while he takes fares all over the city. The boy's mother is disabled and collects rubbish along the roadside. Chuanliu took this drastic step to protect his son because his four-year old daughter Ling was recently abducted last month.

My first thought is why doesn't this man get a bigger rickshaw so that he can keep his son with him while he is running trips all over the city. But alas, how could I forget the "benefits" of communism! He would have to get permission from the Chinese government first. This is the country that we are borrowing billions of dollars from and also purchasing billions of dollars in goods. I am sure George Soros and others of his persuasion see absolutely nothing inhumane about how the masses in China are subsisting.

It is absolutely astounding that this could happen anywhere. Child abduction is common in China, where strict laws determine how many children a family allowed to have. According to the U.K. Daily Mail, some concerned passersby saw the child shackled outside a shopping mall in Liangxiang and notified the authorities, who later ordered the father to remove the chains. This is horrific, but it speaks to a bigger problem -- affordability of child care for those barely able to make ends meet.

The father is reportedly a migrant worker from another province, Szechuan, and he does not qualify for state assistance. He earns a paltry salary, lives in a one room apartment (9ft by 8ft) and had refused to give his children up for adoption. He doesn't even have a picture of his recently abducted daughter to put posters up to find her. This is the face of poverty in China, while they brag to the world that their economy is growing in leaps and bounds and that they are a force to reckon with. They lend billions to others, while people in their country are barely able to get by. This clearly isn't the image the Chinese government wants the world to see.