Importance Of Household Assistants Career progression usually goes with spending long hours at the work place. This has compelled many to resort to the use of house-helps but some parents have ended up shunning their responsibilities towards their family thus making the household assistants doing almost every work in the house. Sometimes house helps are treated with disdain. But counsellors at a family symposium held in Accra, strongly agreed that when house helps are treated well, the family, and for that matter, the employer benefits. GBC