Do we care enough for our elderly parents?
By Formatted Soul •
After India Chinese government is considering to make it a legal duty for people to visit their aged parents.
What do you think of the proposal? Should people be legally bound to take care of their aged parents?
With increased responsibilities of career and family youngsters these days are ignoring their elders.
Under a draft legal amendment, elderly people could go to court to claim their right to be physically and mentally looked after by their children.
http://dalje.com/en-world/proposed-china-law-mandates-elder-care/331483
like its your turn now they did well that's why you are able to move in the world they must get well.
Well said that we have to take care of our parents without any obligations. It’s not that someone should tell us!! Its common sense and love towards our parents.
We are not perfect, but we can try to be good HUMAN with love & care who gave birth, brought us up with good education, job, teaching good manners, etc......... Can we repay them in any ways?? NO, so why escape telling we have responsibilities!!
We should love and take care of them when they really need us.
"To me Parents are living GOD"
it is a shame for all those who do not care their parents and what a lame excuse "increased responsibilities and family"
Just go back to one generation and see how our parents managed to fulfill thier duties towards their childrens and parents and now when they need their childrens to atleast be with them. What are they getting .....?
Whenever you force someone to do something after a certain time, the interest will finish
and then a kind of a world we are living , in times we will find some kinda organization which will fight for the rights of person that he or she has loads of responsibilites and crap and unable to take care of his or her parents.
Just remember that you will get the return of your deeds in this WORLD.
when we become parents we realize that it is impossible to hate our children...but there are exceptions..
It all depends on how close the relationship with the parents is. There are good parents but there are bad parents out there too.
Visiting your old parents should be done sincerely.
i think it all depends on ur bonding with ur parents and morally its our duty to look after them as they looked after us when we needed them.
trend of sending parents to foster homes is on the rise world over.
something haunts always when living as an expat and away from them, at the time they need us bad. We do , but we should be doing more.
If the laws obligates parents looking after their kids, prohibiting child labor, and making educating kids mandatory on parents then its only fitting to do the reverse too! Personally as a Muslima I see it as obligatory cos in Islam second to worshiping our Lord is being dutiful to our parents, but not everyone will see it this way and hence the law may very well have to be enforced to ensure the elderly get their rights.
that one you will be in their age then.............?
All of us know it should be out of love, relegious duty and sense of responsibility.
But if it's not happening, it should be enforced by Law.
it is a moral and relgious duty to take care of elder parents.
As repoted in dailies, the trend of sending elder parents to foster homes in on rise in Qatar
In our country parents are obliged to take care of their children until they are economically independent and, nowadays, this usually doesn’t happen before they are 23-25 years old. So why not to do the same when they are old…I think it’s moral duty...
Normally what happens is we will be busy with our life till they are really sick….then we are forced to go back and take care of them there is no point… I think we should take care of them when they are still able to walk and enjoy life with their children and grand children… I feel guilty too…
Colt I agree…. but that’s just a minority… at least in India 80% of parents take care of their children..even if they don’t have any means to look after them…
never can be by force it needs your inner
We care but notenough. We have to care more.
IMO, most of us don't do enough... That includes me. :O(
Sometimes we get so absorbed with our own material world that we tend to forget the difficulties of the elders..
Mommy Daddy, I Lub U a Lot ! :(
By the way, the above person in Pink looks like britexpat from the back....:)
I think it should be done out of love, gratitude and respect for your parents, not forced upon legally.
Not many kids have the upbringing they would have liked to have, many are abused and suffer mentally. I'm sure not all of those will choose to visit their parent/s during old age :-(