Law requires Chinese to visit their aging parents
Source: Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — Mothers and fathers aren't the only ones urging adult children to visit their parents. China's lawbooks are now issuing the same imperative.
New wording in the law requiring people to visit or keep in touch with their elderly parents or risk being sued came into force Monday, as China faces increasing difficulty in caring for its aging population.
The amended law does little to change the status quo, however, because elderly parents in China already have been suing their adult children for emotional support and the new wording does not specify how often people must visit or clarify penalties for those who do not.
It is primarily aimed at raising awareness of the issue, said one of the drafters, Xiao Jinming, a law professor at Shandong University. "It is mainly to stress the right of elderly people to ask for emotional support ... we want to emphasize there is such a need," he said.
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Trillo
(9,154 posts)Or, less extreme, mere habitual child abusers?
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)I was the victim of intense physical and psychological abuse when I grew up. 15 years of it. I've been disinherited and disowned.
When I explain that to Chinese people here, they look at me and say "you must have deserved it because you must have been a badly behaved child." Or I get "no parents will do that. Parents love their children." When I say I refuse to speak to my parents and wouldn't waste the spit if they were on fire, I am told "but they brought you into this world. You have to love and respect them. They're your parents."
Child abuse is the fault of the child. Spousal abuse is the fault of the wife. And in a divorce (something the woman causes in China), the woman can be left with nothing, even the child.
And since women are expected to give up their careers, schooling and advancement ides up extreme social pressure from parents, family and society in order to be a good mother and wife, if a divorce does happen, she has no work history, no skills, no education and no future.
Trillo
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Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)Just make it so the parents can sue their kids for not coming to visit or giving them money.
After all, the CCP doesn't want a social security system. The theives in the Party look at that as not getting them more money.
When will this dumb Kong zi idea of 3500 years ago (when the parents are alive, the children cannot leave) finally die here in China?
Many parents have children in order to prepare for their golden years and do nothing to raise them. Yes, again, I live here. I see it daily.
Duckwraps
(206 posts)have historically revered their ancestry, now have to be compelled to do it. Boy that's a revelation for me.
China made a Faustian deal, destroying a lot of it's culture to "modernize." It will get real nice when the culture that as used to multiple children has to adapt to the "sea turtles"; the spoiled one-child products of a system that is hyper loyal to beijing, but prefers American tech and culture they are familiar with. These kids will make the American baby Boomers seem humble and selfless.
Duckwraps
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