Putting aged and ailing parents in old age home is not a new thing but it has turned into fashion for those who do not want to devote a little time and patience to their ailing and aged parents who devoted their full time and energy to bring up their children. Why the young generation do not think that they will also become old one day and a worse position is in card for them also.It is hightime for the government to pass an enactment binding the children to take care of their parents otherwise adequate punishment provision should be given in the enactment.
2007-03-22 18:56:50 · 7 answers · asked by VP K 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
I love my parents and they can live with me anytime but if they start getting Super bitchy or need to be hand fed and bathed they need to go to a home, i will not allow myself to become that kind of a burden on my own children either
2007-03-24 19:05:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the parents instilling the type of thinking to care for their aging parents. It's not the governments job to pass some law forcing them to do it! Why should they make it an expectation?
If it becomes some sort of "fashion", then those aging and ailing parents didn't instill the family values to the children to take care of them when they become older.
For the record, we taken care of my mother-in-law with terminal cancer right to the end. She was sick and in pain but she wanted to be home. She passed away at home. It was because from birth, she taught her children to take care of their elders. She taught through example and took care of her mother (their grandmother). It would have been easier to forward her to a hospice. But they didn't. She not once expected her children to take care of her and asked to be put into a home.
2007-03-23 03:30:31 · answer #2 · answered by sweet_cincin 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
and i suppose you live with and care for your parents?
children aren't always children. one day they will want a husband and kids too. since when have any of the older generations had their parents living with their family (that would be two sets of parents as your partners parents would have to live with you two), or indeed given up having a family to live with parents?
people like to blame everything on the young nowadays.
2007-03-24 16:13:12 · answer #3 · answered by Take A Break. Eat A Cookie. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you probably are right. But I loathed my father-in-law - he had a nasty tongue and was very unlovable - and looking after him would have made my life more than a misery.
If old people want to be loved, then they must be lovable. And you can't pass a law on that. And my own mother is as bad.
2007-03-23 05:13:05 · answer #4 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every situation is different, as every family is different. Not all Seniors Homes are bad places to be and not all children make good elder caregivers.
2007-03-23 02:11:49 · answer #5 · answered by Ruby Rose 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because some of the parents raised their children to think that money is everything, jobs are more important then family.
they raised them to be selfish, self centered and greedy.
and NOW, they reep what they sow. they did it to themselves.
personally, i take care of my disabled mother... but i have seen countless times what you describe here.
78 million baby boomers coming up on America... whos gonna take care them? NOT THEIR KIDS.
they did it to themselves, teaching; money money money.
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2007-03-23 10:28:15 · answer #6 · answered by Yvette B yvetteb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Social evils are not removed by laws. But a law of that type is needed.
2007-03-23 02:07:30 · answer #7 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋