Survey reveals common practice in Japanese nurseries where parents are handed child’s soiled nappies to take home. “Why should I take them home?” added the woman, whose two-year-old daughter attends a day care centre in Kyoto, where the city government has had the policy in place since 2011, according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
Baby Job – an Osaka-based child support company that supplies nappies to public childcare providers – surveyed all 1,461 municipalities that run day care centres and found 39% operated the “takeaway” policy.
The facilities gave several reasons for making the demand, with most saying it gave parents the opportunity to check their child’s health by examining their stools, while a smaller number said they did not have the facilities or budget to dispose of the nappies themselves.
An official in the south-western city of Fukuoka said the practice was a hangover from the days when reusable nappies were more common.
Credit: theguardian.com
