Why most of the Chinese let their parents take care of their baby? For most of the Chinese family, when there is a new baby, we will let our parents or parents-in law take care of our child. It seems a tradition for a long long time. For the young couple, they need to go back to work after months' maternity leave. And for the old parents, they don't have so many things to do after their retirement. So it will come to a balance in this issue. There is another reason that most of the old parents think it is their responsiblity to take care of their grandchildren.