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Paris.Casa
06-01-11, 15:29
Visiting parents soon a legal must-do
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
China Daily/Asia News Network

BEIJING - China is considering making it a legal duty for Chinese citizens to visit their aged parents as the country grapples with the challenges posed by a graying population.

Wu Ming, an official with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said on Wednesday that visiting aged family members has been written into the proposed draft amendment to the Law on Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Aged.

The law came into effect in 1996, with no amendments since.

Under the amendment, elderly people who are ignored by their children can go to court to claim their legal rights to be physically and mentally looked after, Wu was quoted as saying by Shandong Business Daily.

When the draft amendment takes effect, the court can no longer reject cases lodged by the elderly who lack proper care from their children, he added.

Wu said spiritual consolation is emphasized in the chapter that family members cannot mentally ignore or isolate the aged, and children who live independently should often visit their parents.

The draft amendment also said the country encourages local governments to give pensions to those above 80 years of age and offer free medical examination service to the elderly, Wu said.

In traditional Chinese culture, it is a moral requirement for children to take care of their aged parents. But now more and more children are defying the tradition.

The information office of the ministry refused to confirm Wu's remarks on Wednesday.

Taking care of the aged has long been a problem in China with its large elderly population. By the end of 2009, 167 million people were over the age of 60 and nearly 19 million were over 80, according to statistics released by the China National Committee on Ageing.

More than half of the people above 60 in China are living alone and things are worse in cities, where about 70 percent of the aged live alone, the statistics said.

Social care for the elderly has been written into the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) in order to let most aged enjoy social care, Li Liguo, minister of civil affairs, said at a conference in November on improving the country's elderly care and service system.

China currently has more than 38,000 nursing homes with nearly 2.7 million beds and more than 2.1 million aged receiving care, according to the ministry.

Many experts praise the trend of paying attention to elderly care in China, but said the legal amendment is too difficult to enforce.

Qian Jun, a Beijing-based lawyer, told China Daily on Wednesday it is impossible to carry out the compulsory requirement to visit elderly family members because it violates personal liberty.

"It would be better to strengthen moral education than to force people to do something legally," Qian said.

-- China Daily/Asia News Network

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Paris.Casa
06-01-11, 15:30
Terrible :haha:

As if it was a burden to visit and look after one's parents or family member...

sidi bibi
06-01-11, 18:47
Terrible :haha:

As if it was a burden to visit and look after one's parents or family member...

Terrible :haha:

Marocaine, 40 ans et vivant toujours chez ses parents - FOYER (http://www.foyer.be/spip.php?page=article&id_article=8610&lang=nl&id_rubrique=6/)

Paris.Casa
06-01-11, 19:05
Terrible :haha:

Marocaine, 40 ans et vivant toujours chez ses parents - FOYER (http://www.foyer.be/spip.php?page=article&id_article=8610&lang=nl&id_rubrique=6/)

:vreemd:

Moroccan weed is not harmful only if smoked with moderation.

ELdorado
06-01-11, 19:22
Visiting parents soon a legal must-do
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
China Daily/Asia News Network

BEIJING - China is considering making it a legal duty for Chinese citizens to visit their aged parents as the country grapples with the challenges posed by a graying population.

Wu Ming, an official with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said on Wednesday that visiting aged family members has been written into the proposed draft amendment to the Law on Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Aged.

The law came into effect in 1996, with no amendments since.

Under the amendment, elderly people who are ignored by their children can go to court to claim their legal rights to be physically and mentally looked after, Wu was quoted as saying by Shandong Business Daily.

When the draft amendment takes effect, the court can no longer reject cases lodged by the elderly who lack proper care from their children, he added.

Wu said spiritual consolation is emphasized in the chapter that family members cannot mentally ignore or isolate the aged, and children who live independently should often visit their parents.

The draft amendment also said the country encourages local governments to give pensions to those above 80 years of age and offer free medical examination service to the elderly, Wu said.

In traditional Chinese culture, it is a moral requirement for children to take care of their aged parents. But now more and more children are defying the tradition.

The information office of the ministry refused to confirm Wu's remarks on Wednesday.

Taking care of the aged has long been a problem in China with its large elderly population. By the end of 2009, 167 million people were over the age of 60 and nearly 19 million were over 80, according to statistics released by the China National Committee on Ageing.

More than half of the people above 60 in China are living alone and things are worse in cities, where about 70 percent of the aged live alone, the statistics said.

Social care for the elderly has been written into the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) in order to let most aged enjoy social care, Li Liguo, minister of civil affairs, said at a conference in November on improving the country's elderly care and service system.

China currently has more than 38,000 nursing homes with nearly 2.7 million beds and more than 2.1 million aged receiving care, according to the ministry.

Many experts praise the trend of paying attention to elderly care in China, but said the legal amendment is too difficult to enforce.

Qian Jun, a Beijing-based lawyer, told China Daily on Wednesday it is impossible to carry out the compulsory requirement to visit elderly family members because it violates personal liberty.

"It would be better to strengthen moral education than to force people to do something legally," Qian said.

-- China Daily/Asia News Network

Visiting parents soon a legal must-do (http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110106-256761.html)

This is insane really :only a totalitarian system such as that of communism can come up with :

het zal zeker een averechts effect hebben op zowel de jongeren als hun oude ouderen ...

ELdorado
06-01-11, 19:36
Terrible :haha:

As if it was a burden to visit and look after one's parents or family member...


The old people & parents in China & in the rest of Asia used to be treated with a lots of veneration, respect , adoration ...

The modern industrialization urbanization of those countries in question + the rise of their ecopnomies had changed those ethics (Marx must be glad about the fact that econmy can change or produce ethics sometimes ) in the sense that young people were too busy to build their carrieres , succes ...that they neglegted or even abandoned their aged parents , especially when u consider the young generation tight budget & small appartments, lack of time ...!

Those Asian governments lack sufficient funds , so it seems, to provide for those abandoned old people or in order to create a social system that could protect weak people like that ; so they choose to force people to look for their parents because they have no other way to convince people to do that , no system of beliefs or ethics that can make people do that !

Look, for example in Morocco, there's no social system that protects the unemployed,the old, the poor , the weak ...like in western countries for example :

social & familial solidarity & other ethics taken from islam do the job for the government in that regard , that's why the government uses & even misuses islam for political social cultural economic & other reasons to protect the relative social cohesion & stability in Morocco ...

If itwasn't for islam , Arab & so_called muslim countries would have faced huge social problems, social violence ..

well, even misusing religion is not always a guarantee to make people peaceful :

see the latest social uprises in Tunesia, Algeria, Egypt ....

see also how attacks against christians & conflicts between different ethnicities within the Arab & so_called muslim world like in Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, Irak & elsewhere can further destabilise those countries ...

Those dictatorships in the Arab & so_called muslim world must be toppled sooner or later ...

ELdorado
06-01-11, 19:41
:vreemd:

Moroccan weed is not harmful only if smoked with moderation.

It's proven that weed can effect & reduce men's sexual capacity & damage the brain , can trigger some kind of schizofreny in the long run
.......


it means nothing to say : smoke weed with moderation : it's like saying to tobacco smokers : smoke with moderation : u know that smoking cigarettes for example can provoke lung cancer no matter how moderate in ur smoking behaviour u might be ...

Paris.Casa
06-01-11, 20:37
The old people & parents in China & in the rest of Asia used to be treated with a lots of veneration, respect , adoration ...

The modern industrialization urbanization of those countries in question + the rise of their ecopnomies had changed those ethics (Marx must be glad about the fact that econmy can change or produce ethics sometimes ) in the sense that young people were too busy to build their carrieres , succes ...that they neglegted or even abandoned their aged parents , especially when u consider the young generation tight budget & small appartments, lack of time ...!

Those Asian governments lack sufficient funds , so it seems, to provide for those abandoned old people or in order to create a social system that could protect weak people like that ; so they choose to force people to look for their parents because they have no other way to convince people to do that , no system of beliefs or ethics that can make people do that !

Look, for example in Morocco, there's no social system that protects the unemployed,the old, the poor , the weak ...like in western countries for example :

social & familial solidarity & other ethics taken from islam do the job for the government in that regard , that's why the government uses & even misuses islam for political social cultural economic & other reasons to protect the relative social cohesion & stability in Morocco ...

If itwasn't for islam , Arab & so_called muslim countries would have faced huge social problems, social violence ..

well, even misusing religion is not always a guarantee to make people peaceful :

see the latest social uprises in Tunesia, Algeria, Egypt ....

see also how attacks against christians & conflicts between different ethnicities within the Arab & so_called muslim world like in Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, Irak & elsewhere can further destabilise those countries ...

Those dictatorships in the Arab & so_called muslim world must be toppled sooner or later ...

To make it legal to force children to visit their parents and to allow parents to go to court if their children's duty to visit them is not fulfilled seems surrealistic. At least, from an Arab or Muslim point of view, it sounds unconceivable.

But if it can prevent elderly people from dying alone and unnoticed as we have seen so often before, why not.

But a stronger moral education would be more than welcome.

Tomas
06-01-11, 20:47
Hoorde een tijdje terug over een systeem in Japan. Daar heb je een alternatieve officiele valuta voor ouderen zorg. Die kan je alleen maar krijgen/verdienen door zelf ouderen te helpen/verzorgen. Die 'centjes' die je daarmee verdient kan je weer hulp inkopen voor je eigen ouders die te ver weg van je wonen. Dit omdat ouderen op het platteland blijven of er naar trekken, terwijl de kinderen op hun beurt naar de stad trekken. Vond het wel een slim systeem.