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Manchester's China Town

Family Life

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Working in a Chinese takeaway means anti-social hours and it can be hopeless for family life. In Manchester, parents from the Chinese community have been taking parenting classes to help deal with the problem. Wai Yin, a Chinese women's society in Manchester, has been running courses for 3 years and have found them to be particularly popular with fathers, many of whom were disciplined by their parents with a stick.

Kim Normanton finds out more...


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