The DPRK has the socialist system of nursing and upbringing of children in which all children under school age are brought up collectively at nurseries and kindergartens at state and social expense.
Bringing up children at state and social expense is not only the undertaking to bring up the children in a cultural and scientific way and educate them in a revolutionary way but the important one to free women from the heavy burden of housekeeping.
The DPRK has weekly nurseries and kindergartens for women who are busy due to their professional characteristics including journalists, teachers, researchers, artistes, doctors and those who frequently travel on official business, and those who have children born in two successive years, thus enabling the women actively take part in the socio-political activities without any worries.
The first weekly nursery was built at the foot of Mt.
The weekly nurseries bring up children in a professional and systematic way according to diverse daily routines in keeping with the characteristics of the children who spend a week without care of their parents.
With the advanced and scientific upbringing methods, they not only cultivate the children’s cultured emotions and feelings and develop their intelligence but promote their independence and make them acquire good habits.
They also bring up the children to be healthy and intelligent by teaching them language, songs, counting and games and musical instruments in diverse forms and methods in keeping with their mental state.
In particular, women are able to distribute many hours they spent at home for them to the socio-political activities and make the children take pleasure in leading pleasant life together with those of same age.
Like this, the socialist policy of reducing burden of the women and finely nursing and upbringing children at state and social expense is firmly guaranteed by the Law on the Nursing and Upbringing of Children.
