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New law in China: You must visit your elderly parents “often”
The amendment does not specify how frequently such visits should occur.
State media say the new clause will allow elderly parents who feel neglected by their children to take them to court. The move comes as reports abound of elderly parents being abandoned or ignored by their children.
A rapidly developing China is facing increasing difficulty in caring for its aging population.
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Who wants to give me odds that this will soon come to America?
BigGator5 on December 28, 2012 at 1:30 PM
And winning a judgement that defines visitation is a great way to build a relationship!
2L8 on December 28, 2012 at 1:40 PM
New law in China: You must visit your elderly parents “often”
…or, you will not live to reach their age.
kingsjester on December 28, 2012 at 1:44 PM
Sheesh, the only thing in that article worth reading was the first three paragraphs. The rest was uninformative or irrelevant blather, and the only examples they gave of child-parent relationships were ones that indicated the government should prohibit children from having any contact with their aging parents.
Dusty on December 28, 2012 at 1:48 PM
Thanks to Obamanomics, our kids only have to walk upstairs to “visit.”
Stu Gotts on December 28, 2012 at 1:49 PM
You must also register your name to use the internet.
Welcome your overlords, leftards of HA, of the world, incl. Friedman, Krugman and Obama.
Schadenfreude on December 28, 2012 at 1:49 PM
This is the future of Obama’care’.
Schadenfreude on December 28, 2012 at 1:50 PM
One of the many reasons for the breakup of the family in China was Tom Friedman’s vaunted government. First they force the reduction in the number of children who can visit parents, then they centrally plan a market economy which forces children to effectively abandon their parents in order to have any hope of being able to support them.
Now Friedman’s epitome of how to run society is blithely passing a law which has no meaning and will only serve to create suspicion, animosity, division and a whole lot more lawyers to pauperize the populace.
Dusty on December 28, 2012 at 2:02 PM
Because that ‘Honor your parents’ thang is so gauche.
locomotivebreath1901 on December 28, 2012 at 3:06 PM
The effect will be to destroy the the mobility of the working class and to keep people from moving to cities or to where jobs can be found. The Communist state isn’t even 100 years old and already it’s committing suicide by ossification. It’s drunk the suicider.
njcommuter on December 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM