Why do you neglect your parents ?

I took care of my parents. Now my children respect us - myself and my wife. But there may be stray cases where parents have not taken care of children and hence children neglect parents. Of course much depends on one luck to have good parents and good children.

Hello Rollylolly, I also don't understand why people forget that they also will grow old and what will they do if their own kids do the same what they did to their parents?. I live with my parents and it never happens that i don't discuss anything with my parents as whatever new happens with me or whatever new thing i want to do i always take advice from my father first then do it. For me to neglect my parents i cannot dream of.I respect them as i know because of them only i have been here to see this beautiful world.

Yes. It is sad. Today, many children, who ignores her parents. They do not want to be bothered, by their parents. As if they would never be old. I'm not going to ignore my parents. I will try my best, to make my parents happy.

It's hard to judge what the cause them for doing so. I am sure there is reason behind. I know it's inhuman. Let's set aside the relationship, between parents-kids, or in laws. Let's take the side of humanity alone. I also wonder why people are too cruel and violent to others. Some reasons may due to cultures or individual behavior and upbringing. It's so sad, but this is reality and it happening everywhere.

My mother lives in other country but I call her often. Few year ago I was working in nursing home and I witnessed such negligence. Children put their parents to such home just to get rid of them. It was like throwing away not wanted furniture. Just horrible. I don't understand wh6y such things happen. Part of the blame got parents themselves not teaching their children respect for older people.

There are many parents who neglect their children as well. Or only take the time to beat them up and spit at them in ways you can't even imagine about. I neglect my parents and that is the best thing I can do. So we both can live our lives the way we like witout one party always kicking at the other. My parents are surely not the kind of parents that will sit there and cry because they don't see their kids. They both are very rich, are able to do what they want and they don't care about their kids at all. There are also kids who work very hard to pay the bills for the places where their parents are living and get the (health) care they need. Ever thought about that? Or how many old people we have here, who do cry but are not even remember their kids at all and are living in the past? Who think their parents are still alive? I don't know where you live, where kids beat up their parents? But I do know that no parent is the same, no kid is and most people are trying very hard to keep themselves alive. And this has nothing to do with neglecting their parents because they are not working or productive anymore. BTW it's a very hard task to make someone happy who can't feel happy or live in a different world and is not interested in the world where you live. Old people here stay home as long as possible and take care of themselves. You can go to an elderly home if you are 80 years old or mostly much older. Most elderly people have a life of their own. They don't sit home and wait for their kids or kid to pass by and tell them the latest news. The go dancing, gymnastic, use computers, go on vacations and meet people of their age and same interest. Over here it's not normal to use your parents to babysit your kids, live together with them for the rest of your life. We all have our own homes, places and at the time we can't take care of ourselves anymore me go to hospital or elderly home and mostly don't live that long anymore. That is how the situation is nowadays. It has nothing to do with not being productive or working anymore because if that would be the reason the biggest part of the world has to be neglected since they are all without a job.

Hi there.. I am an atheist and dont believe god but for me my parents are god and i can do everything for them... everything means everything.... I am still unmarried for my family. they are my gods and i am ready to sacrifice myself for them. Have a nice day ahead.

i think it is also because of what they see from their parents..or their family or race isn't practicing the close family ties..like here in the philippines, i saw some old people abandoned by their family..but it is not that rampant..unlike in other countries, mostly, people sends their parents to those nursing homes because they don't have the time and patience to take care of their old parents as much as what their parents give to them when they were still a baby..

When I was a child my parents used to play with me and we were having very much fun but as the time passed,and I got in School then college the bond between me and my parents somehow become negligible because we don't have any communication. Here comes the problem when we think that our parents are neglecting us but in real because there is no communication which can bond us is the main problem.If you think your parents are neglecting you just remember your days when you were a child and by those memory try to communicate with your parents .I am sure you will not feel the same anymore......