Views of Saw K’ Pay and Paw Da, the maternal grandparents/caregiver
The grandfather mentioned that he is now suffering the sickness (pile) and he is not able to sit because it would make him hurt. Therefore, last year in 2014, they went to Bong Ti to get the traditional medical treatment for a year and the child also went with them because he did not want to stay behind without them. The child therefore studied one year at Thai school and he passed pau-1 (grade-1) at Bong Ti and they came back when he started to attend pau-2. The grandfather said that he was getting better but he was not completely cured. The grandfather mentioned that they tried to convince the child to stay with the father as previous panel recommendation but the child just went to eat at the father’s house and came back. The grandparents mentioned that the father is not able to provide attention to the child since he is mostly working outside and the child was always staying with them since birth. At the moment, the father went to work outside every day since 4 to 5 months ago. They said that they would not feel secured for the child if he was left with the father and the aunt also cannot take care of him because she has her own children to care for. They worried that she might ignore the child if he is not listening to her so that the child might be left alone by himself for some reasons. They said that the child went to sleep with the father one time when the father invited him but he never went to sleep there again. The child also has no attachment with the paternal relatives (as mentioned in previous report).