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★ [O05-05] Now and Future Thailand's Family
In Thailand, families reside with their family size either in cities or countryside. The family size in countryside is larger than one in cities. The marriage practice allows women to move into husband's family.Family member are delegated household each other. Women do household: cooking, cleaning and washing. Instead, men do heavy work in their house. When children reach about 8 years old, they need to assist their mother and father like cooking and taking care of younger siblings. Most men of Thailand can cook and taken care of kids. Recently, the family likes to pay money to housekeeper to clean house and wash clothes. Some family's grandmother and grandfather are in house. They take care of kids when the parent goes to work out. Women worked in company or government ask maidservant to stay with her family. Maidservant will take care of baby and cooking for the host family. They get foods and salary about 20000 yen per month. Most of the maidservants are teenager and the maidservants are from Myanmar or Laos. However, recently women who graduate from colleges or universities become choosing to work for long period before marriage.