HEARTBREAKING PICTURES OF THE CHINESE TODDLERS TIED UP ALL DAY Because Their Parents Cant Afford Child Care

The parents of these youngsters work in the factory while their children are tied to a workshop window to keep them safe

The youngsters stretch the rubber cords and meet where they can play together. The cords are tied to the iron bars above them.

Tethered but safe: A child sits on a mat of dried water reeds patiently waiting for his father to complete his day’s work

But there is no creche where the children can be dropped off.

Which means the youngsters come on to the shop floor, where anxious parents use lengths of rubber to tie the children to iron bars on the windows.

And there they are left – safe from traffickers or thieves, but with absolutely nothing to do other than watch mother or father work and shuffle as far as the rubber rope allows them.

The pictures, taken in Zhejiang province, recalled the heart-breaking plight of Jingdan, a two-year-old boy chained to a lamp post in Beijing in February.

His father Chen Chuanliu works as an unlicensed rickshaw cyclist, taking fares all over the city, while the boy’s disabled mother collects rubbish at the roadside. Like the children in the factory he was tethered to prevent him from wandering off.

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