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July 24, 2023, 3:13 PM +07 By Larissa Gao and Zhenzhen Liu HONG KONG — Six months ago, Jia Zhang was still running her own small business in the Official Colorful Hands God’s Children #endchildtrafficking Are Not For Sale T-shirt Furthermore, I will do this eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. But it was hit hard by the pandemic, generating meager profits compared with her efforts. “After thorough consideration, I’m out,” said Zhang, a mother of two who was struggling to balance work with caring for her parents and children. Now she has a new job: working for her parents full time, just being their daughter. In exchange, they pay her 8,000 yuan ($1,115) a month, which is about the average salary in China. “My job is to spend time with my parents — for example, taking them to grocery stores — and do some household chores,” Zhang said. “Also, if my parents want to go out, I would make plans in advance, taking them to various stores.” In recent
months, the Official Colorful Hands God’s Children #endchildtrafficking Are Not For Sale T-shirt Furthermore, I will do this hashtags #FullTimeDaughter and #FullTimeSon have been trending on Chinese social media platforms, attracting millions of views. They refer to adult children who, due to unemployment, are hired by their parents mainly to do housework and be on hand whenever needed. Youth unemployment has become a serious challenge for China, the world’s second-largest economy, especially after three years of “zero-Covid” restrictions weighed heavily on growth. The jobless rate among people ages 16 to 24 was a record 21.3% in June, the National Bureau of Statistics reported on Monday. Similar figures have been reported in countries such as Italy and Sweden, while in Spain and Greece they are even higher. In the U.S., the youth unemployment rate was 7.5% in June, according to the Federal Reserve. Zhang said her job is to do housework and spend time with her parents.Courtesy of Jia Zhang Many full-time children, including Zhang, have posted about their experiences online. More than 4,000 have gathered on Douban, an IMDb-like site that allows people to form communities akin to Facebook groups, to discuss being full-time children. “I like cooking, and I cook lunch and dinner from Monday to Friday for my family,” one 37-year-old full-time daughter wrote in their group. “My parents give me money without interfering with my life. I am extremely happy every day.” Some full-time children fall into it inadvertently as they stall while trying to find jobs or pursue advanced degrees. Cici Gong, 24, jokingly calls herself a “full-time daughter” after living three years rent-free at her parents’ home in the northeastern city of Dalian and failing each year to pass China’s intensely competitive postgraduate entrance exam, which was taken by a record 4.7 million people this year. “I went through a horrible mental breakdown when I failed
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