Is there any significant correlation between wealth and brainlessness? Below is an example of a raising trend in China.
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SUPER-RICH adults in China have sparked a craze for drinking breast milk as the demand for ‘wet nurses’ booms.
A home help agency in Shenzen, southern China, is providing wet nurses - or adult nannies - for the sick and wealthy citizens who deem breast milk to have high nutritional value, as well as for newborns.
Lin Jun, manager of the Xinxinyu Household Service Company, said his clients include exhausted company directors and rich couples from Hong Kong.
He told a local newspaper: “Adult (clients) can drink it directly through breastfeeding, or they can always drink it from a breast pump if they feel embarrassed.
“Breast milk is the best tonic, especially for those who have just undergone major surgery.”
Young lactating mums from poor areas are being snapped up by well-off families for six to eight months and paid up to £1,700 (16,000 Yuan) a month for their services.
According to Lin, good-looking nurses and those in good health can earn significantly more.
The report sparked intense debate on Chinese social media, with many commentators branding the trade unethical.
Writer Cao Baoyin said: “This adds to China’s problem of treating women as consumer goods and the moral degradation of China’s rich.”
Demand for wet nurses has soared in the wake of 2008’s tainted baby formula scandal, which killed six infants.