Our responsibilities as daughters....

I am an Indian and I can't agree with you more when it comes to care and affection in asian families. I still live in a joint family. Most people ask us how it's possible and that if my folks fight at times. They of course. But what keeps them strong is their adjusting tendency. I guess that's what's lacking in the case of western families. From what I know, they need a lot of personal space.

As a daughter and the eldest, as well, I have shouldered such responsibility that I should be the one taking care of my younger brother for both our parent's aren't with us. Budgeting our money is also another tasked handed to me by my mom and I would say it's really not an easy responsibility. At this young age of mine, I was already taught of how to handle and spend our money thriftly. Other teenagers like me are enjoying their life without such responsibility at all, but I consider myself luckier than them for I know in the future I wouldn't have big problems anymore about how to wisely use my money at hand.^_^

Well it all depends on the family...I have no responsiblity to my parents and dont even talk to them..I've not talked to my "father" in over 20 yrs and plan to keep it that way..I talk to my mother by way of email 4 times a yr very briefly and thats it....Why? Becuase they were extremely abusive to me when I was a child and teen and my mother still has been right into my adult yrs... However thats MY situation...there is no love between my parents and I and thats fine.....many families though are tight families and the kids DO stick by their parents, care for htem etc..My husband is like that..I have friends, both male and female who are very close to their parents as well..It all depends on the individual family really

i agree with u about the asian people. at least that's how it goes in Indonesia. we will still taking care of our parents til we get married even til we get old, if our parents are still alive that age. there's no stop responsibilities for a children to their parents, it will never end. i believe, the western people are still care bout their parents but in different ways. we have a different typical of parents between here in Asia and Western. usually, the western parents will let their childs grown up maturely, socialize and be independent. not like in Asia, our parents usually still interfere with our personal life too deep and that makes us slowly grown up maturely than them Western people. let's compare between teenager age 17, here in Asia we're still childhish and haven't live on our own and far from our parents. we still tailing our parents. but in western countries, they already worked from a young age but i meant a good work with a good payment.