The ubiquitous topic

The topic of how Singaporeans treat their domestic helpers has come into the spotlight again.

This is the umpteenth time over the last few years that an article has been published in the mass papers highlighting various atrocious acts committed on these ladies who have come from a foreign country in hope of a better pay and better future.

I was reading Melissa Heng’s article on My Paper this morning. She called for a government unit, possibly MCYS or MOM, to institutionalize a formal framework of procedures addressing the welfare and treatment of these domestic helpers.

She suggested for a 15-minute session to be held with each helper twice a year. This she said, could potentially make the employers think twice before putting a hand (or a cooking pot) on their helpers.

Plausible? Perhaps..This is also not the first time someone has called for a formal unit to be established to look into these matters. Nothing has been done, perhaps the people in the government are looking into these options right now….hmm.

I’ve seen the other extreme where helpers are treated very much like another rmember of the family. They eat together with family members, sleep and lay with their kids, go shopping with the family and even go on overseas trips with them.

But there will always be black sheep around. In whatever society or culture.

I’m just wondering why most of these black sheep highlighted in these domestic help abuse cases are educated professionals.

The more educated you are, the more warped your brain becomes??

It’s a strange world.
Really.