The Effects of Hiring a Foreign Maid

Nowadays, the employment of foreign maid has increasing tremendously. They are hired to do the house chores as the women are mostly having a career or profession which keep them spending most of the time outside of the house. As a result, the house works are taken over by the foreign maid and it brings negative effects to the employer’s family and also to the country. Hence, the insecure home, problem with the family institution, high costs and increase in expenses for the local government are therefore, the effects of hiring a foreign maid.
One of the effects of hiring the foreign maid is that the sponsor’s home might not be a safe place for a family to live. This is because the house is open to robberies. The house robberies are possible to happen as there is a foreigner who is hired to do the house chores at home. Some of them are not fully intended to work as a maid. Hence, the housemaids might want to earn extra money by complotting with the outsiders to rob the employer’s house. According to “Cops collar thieving” (2010), a foreign maid was arrested by the local police due to the loss of the employer’s cash and gold jewellery. The incident happened as the foreign maid knew that the employer kept the jewellery and cash in a cupboard and then she opened it and stole them. The worst of this case is that she changed the jewellery with the imitation one. The foreign maid admitted that she had compromised with the local woman to steal the employer’s belonging and sell it to the mortgage shop. Furthermore, child abuse might also occur. There are several cases where the maid acts violently towards the child. The child is abused physically and mentally. As the examples, the maid abuses the child physically by canning on the child’s leg and also the child is abuses mentally when the maid scolds them. According to “Maid gets jail” (2010), Assistant Superintendent Norazlin of the Bukit Aman Sexual and Child Abuse Investigation Department said that there are only