Parents

I think in most cases yes.. by the time your " old " like over 50 your children are usually alot more mature themselves and realize just how important family is....

all they think about. When I was young I grew up in the USA. My parents were always doing there own thing and for the most part could not be bothered with us kids. There live were so much more important to the, after all we were just the kids. Now that they are getting up in years, they cry about the lack of attention fro there children. Now we are there children that are not caring for them. It is no more just the kids! We give what we got, for the most part. Children are taught that family is just a burden, I know you don’t think of you children as a burden, or do you? Do your actions in life match or surpass your words? I took a different roll in my life, my kids are my life. They know it and have felt my great love for them. My life truly revolved around them as they were growing up. I am sure they will be there for me when I need them in my old age. I was injured a few years ago and needed to be cared for 24 hours a day for a couple of years. The boys put their lives on hold to help me make the long hard recovery. It all comes down to we get what we give, are you giving to your children? I mean really giving to them, are they number 1 to you? If they are and you are truly teaching them family values, they will be there for you. I live back in Mexico now and here in this part we don’t ship our old or challenged off to a home some where. They are part of our lives and communities. Thank god we are not so modern yet to do such things to our family. I know it is for there own good, they are better off in a home were they can get the care and attention they need. NOT you just don’t want to be bothered. Just something to think about.

There are two things: 1. It is but natural that parents do take care of their children from the time of birth to the stage where they can stand on their own. Procreation is easy (producing children), bringing them up is a herculian task for both husband and wife. (more so for wife). Unlike in Western Societies, in countries like India, Sri Lanka, the family bondage is very high. Relationship between parents and children keeps building up and it continues on and on. May be exception to a few, majority of the children respect their parents. Why that, the children also take care of the parents in their old age. The love and affection is only to be experienced and cannot be written.

I THINK SO I HOPE MY DAUGHTER IS GOOD TO ME..

the past mistakes of karma, the harvest has to be endured.. do unto others, what you expect others to do unto you.. so, let us respect our parents, so that our chidren respect us, anyway, expecting is bad, but the harvest, is sure to be expected sooner or later, whether you wish it or not, that is the way karma works, and also as said, strange are the ways of the lord.. arvind

Increasingly and sadly, less and less, my old man shoved his mum in a nursing home then never visited her once-- that was down to me, my wife and her great grandson-- even my wife's bro who came to visit from Oz visited her but not her own son and daughter. The nurses there were NOT sympathetic -- used to make my blood boil!! I'm sure there are many stories like this and worse.Although some oldies r well looked after by their families there are so many who just don't give a sh*t! This is Western culture -- in Asia family units r more close-knit and there is much more sense of responsibility and respect to the elders. This may well change as the influence of the Kulture of Krass increases.