CHINA has enacted its newest law to ensure children are looking after their parent when they turn silver age. Following the increase case of complaint by senior to court, the government step into the case. It said, the complaint were not because of money, it is demand for emotional support. It show how much old Chinese parent are facing loneliness by staying at government aided senior citizen houses. The growing demand of jobs might have been a reason of why working adult children failed to see their parent frequently. One argued that it is very costly to return hometown and see their parent in regular basis for those who have migrated to seek greener pasture. As a big continent like China, it is not easy to travel across the country. Plus fighting at work to maintain job is anther issue that make them difficult to get leaves. As such, the youths are doubt at newly formed law if it is workable or not.
The first case has been sentenced against children who failed her mother to give enough care. The verdict said the daughter is needed to visit her mother once every couple months. Otherwise she face hefty fines and prison sentence. Let it be. The move has sense and non-sense attached. Good for parent but bad for working adult I think. However, an Asian culture shouldn't be like that. Our culture encouraged our people to take care their old parent as an obligation. This culture doesn't need written law to do so. Our country might have seen such case. It may not be because of lacking kindness. It is because of hard earning and difficult lives struggling themselves on their own wages. That make children almost impossible to look after extra person unless they are living together with parent. If economic good and people find better earning through works, such problem might have been settled at the same time. Hopefully, such law will never come to our home land as a majority Buddhist nation.
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