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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH - Thursday, 22 March 2012 [View all]xchrom
(108,903 posts)38. China faces 'timebomb' of ageing population
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/20/china-next-generation-ageing-population
While hundreds of millions of Chinese families toasted the new year together, 84-year-old He Daxing huddled on the doorstep of his daughter's home in Chongqing.
On the most important date in the calendar, not one of his six grown children born before the country's one-child policy was imposed would take him in.
Filial piety is so embedded here that officials offered to help him sue his offspring when he fell ill after four nights outside: Chinese law requires adults to support their parents. Yet his case shows that traditional ideals are under growing pressure in a fast-changing, increasingly individualistic society.
China may soon have more He Daxings. It faces a soaring number of old people and a shrinking number of young adults, who are also less able and sometimes less willing to support their elders.
While hundreds of millions of Chinese families toasted the new year together, 84-year-old He Daxing huddled on the doorstep of his daughter's home in Chongqing.
On the most important date in the calendar, not one of his six grown children born before the country's one-child policy was imposed would take him in.
Filial piety is so embedded here that officials offered to help him sue his offspring when he fell ill after four nights outside: Chinese law requires adults to support their parents. Yet his case shows that traditional ideals are under growing pressure in a fast-changing, increasingly individualistic society.
China may soon have more He Daxings. It faces a soaring number of old people and a shrinking number of young adults, who are also less able and sometimes less willing to support their elders.
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Thanks for following up on that, Po. It plays into Tansy's "shocked, shocked!" theme, too!
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indeed. -- now NC isn't Mich -- but i certainly had the heat cut on in the mornings
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