Chinese girl, 7, spends days in mum’s delivery van rather than be a left-behind child
Despite her reservations, her parents believe it is preferable to leaving her with her grandparents after regretting their more distant relationship with their son
A seven-year-old girl has become her mother’s travelling work companion, delivering goods around eastern China by van since she was four, according to a mainland media report.
Miaomiao is spending much of her childhood around freight yards and warehouses, but her mother, a delivery van driver, considers this a better option than letting her become a “left-behind child”, Qianjiang Evening News reported on Monday.
“I have no other choice,” it quoted the girl’s mother, Zhang Xiaoyun, as saying. “If there were people available to look after the child, which parent would allow their child to accompany them in a van on their delivery rounds every day?”
Miaomiao attends school, but on weekends, public holidays and vacations she will be in the passenger’s seat in her mother’s van, stated the report, as Zhang drives around Hangzhou, in Zhejiang province, delivering goods.
