{"id":1810637,"date":"2023-01-19T14:35:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810637"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:40:23","slug":"missing-my-chinese-co-parent-american-mom-celebrates-raising-kids-in-repressive-communist-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missing-my-chinese-co-parent-american-mom-celebrates-raising-kids-in-repressive-communist-state\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Missing My Chinese Co-Parent\u2019: American Mom Celebrates Raising Kids In Repressive Communist State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmissing-my-chinese-co-parent-american-mom-celebrates-raising-kids-in-repressive-communist-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Fashion designer, who spent 16 years living in Communist China with her two daughters. She celebrated the birth of her children. \u201cco-parented by the Chinese government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heather Kaye shared her optimistic view of communist China in an interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/18\/opinion\/china-education-parenting-culture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion piece<\/a> The New York Times<\/p>\n<p>Kaye laughed when Kaye said that she \u201claughed out loud\u201d When you view a picture online showing an American woman wearing a T shirt with American inscriptions, \u201cI refuse to co-parent with the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn China, government co-parenting begins in the womb,\u201d Kaye stated, noting that China has for many years set limits on how many children parents can have. Chinese citizens are still prohibited from determining this number. \u201cgender of their unborn babies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to accept that my growing belly had become community property \u2026 restaurants would refuse to serve me cold beverages,\u201d She recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2008 and 2010 we delivered two healthy daughters in Shanghai and faced the choice of all expatriate parents in China: between pricey international schools and enrollment in local schools, overseen by the government and with an immersion in Chinese culture and values,\u201d She wrote that they had discussed the possibility of their daughters learning, and that it was something she felt strongly about. \u201cfluent Mandarin and, hopefully, a broadened worldview\u201d However, they can also be exposed. \u201cCommunist Party propaganda and potential social isolation of being foreigners in a group of Chinese students \u2026 we took the plunge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur stringent government co-parent quickly made its presence felt,\u201d Kaye wrote: \u201chow many hours our daughters should sleep, what they should eat and their optimal weight. Each morning all of the students performed calisthenics in straight rows and raised China\u2019s red flag while singing the national anthem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaye was happy for the Chinese communist school that her girls attended. \u201cself-discipline, integrity and respect for elders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt times, our girls would repeat propaganda,\u201d She acknowledged her gratitude, and praised the \u201cheavy censorship, which results in a kid-friendly internet, and national limits\u00a0on how many hours young people can spend playing online video games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaye praised Kaye \u201ctight control of the Communist Party surveillance state\u201d For allowing her daughters to ride on the subway at the age of 11 \u201cThe sense of civic pride was palpable,\u201d She agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve returned to a divided America where many feel government has no place in our lives,\u201d Kaye wrote despairingly. \u201cIn these times, I find myself missing my Chinese co-parent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttention to the common good is a fundamental value I seek in an American government co-parent,\u201d Kaye concluded.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After 16 years in Shanghai, American expat Heather Kaye and her family are part of an exodus of both foreigners and locals driven out by China&#8217;s unshifting COVID zero policy that\u2019s seen two years of strict curbs and a crushing two-month lockdown <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9IEeG1nkOc\">https:\/\/t.co\/9IEeG1nkOc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Iy26BvnQNo\">pic.twitter.com\/Iy26BvnQNo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1544999676251815942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fashion designer who lived for 16 years in Communist China, where she raised her two daughters, celebrated her children being \u201cco-parented by the Chinese government.\u201d Heather Kaye offered her sanguine opinion of communist China in an opinion piece in The New York Times. 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