{"id":24692,"date":"2025-06-29T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/24692\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:28:12","slug":"fierce-china-job-market-turns-unemployed-youths-into-full-time-grandkids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/24692\/","title":{"rendered":"Fierce China job market turns unemployed youths into \u2018full-time grandkids\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As China\u2019s job market continues to struggle, a new trend in which young people become \u201cfull-time grandchildren\u201d by returning home to care for their elderly grandparents has gone viral.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The trend addresses their own employment problems and the growing need for companionship among the elderly.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Such so-called full-time grandchildren provide companionship, emotional support and daily help to elderly or disabled family members.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Compared to \u201cfull-time children,\u201d who primarily accompany able-bodied parents, \u201cfull-time grandchildren\u201d are often seen as more filial.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"So-called full-time grandchildren can turn an elderly relative\u2019s day into a fun experience. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/75b87a07-2b3e-458d-9569-f14454f6bdf5_73bc9731.jpg\" title=\"So-called full-time grandchildren can turn an elderly relative\u2019s day into a fun experience. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>So-called full-time grandchildren can turn an elderly relative\u2019s day into a fun experience. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">One such 26-year-old who was unable to find work after failing her postgraduate and civil service exams accepted her grandfather\u2019s invitation to return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As China\u2019s job market continues to struggle, a new trend in which young people become \u201cfull-time grandchildren\u201d by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[22173,64,74,22165,22176,10804,79,22170,22172,22177,22182,22174,16790,22167,22166,22179,7414,316,12857,22168,420,22178,8707,22181,22175,22180,988,5174,766,67,132,68,8066,22171,22169,11108],"class_list":["post-24692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-able-bodied","tag-business","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-civil-service","tag-companion","tag-economy","tag-elderly","tag-emotional","tag-exams","tag-expensive","tag-filial","tag-frugal","tag-grandchildren","tag-grandkids","tag-habits","tag-hiring","tag-home","tag-job-market","tag-jobless","tag-jobs","tag-pampered","tag-pensions","tag-personal-growth","tag-postgraduate","tag-promises","tag-restaurants","tag-support","tag-unemployment","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-work","tag-workers","tag-young-people","tag-youth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114767128463243682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}