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[quote=JIMMYB,273398]Today, more and more young guys leave their homes to seek jobs and settle down outside. However, their old parents still live where their children grow up. These young guys seldom come back home because they are busy with their work. To support their parents, they just give their parents money instead of taking care of them. They don't know that their parents don't need their money. They just hope their children can come back home often because they feel very lonely. Measuring with filial piety principle, all of them fail to be filial children because they don't take the responsiblity of taking care of their parents.

An article from Newsweek has revealed this problem deeply.

Title: China’s New Empty Nest
Author: Melinda Liu

Although they live in a nation of 1.3 billion people, Wu Shaoqiu and his wife are lonely. Their son now lives in Canada, their daughter in France. "We need to have someone stay and talk with us from time to time," says Wu, 75, a retired bureaucrat from China's Hubei province. In 2006 he spotted an ad in the local paper, offering to introduce empty-nesters to adult women willing to be "adopted." Wu liked an executive named Fang Fang and brought her home to meet his wife. "She brought a bunch of flowers … she called me 'Papa' and my wife 'Mummy'," Wu says. Fang Fang soon joined the family—and introduced two other women whom the elderly couple took in as well. On weekends and holidays all three women, who are in their 40s and married, visit the couple to cook and clean, and maybe play cards or surf the Web. "I consider them my real daughters now," Wu says.

Family is the bedrock of Chinese society, at least in theory. But three decades of gut-wrenching change are testing those old bonds. More kids than ever are leaving their hometowns—even the country—in search of jobs. This generation is the first to grow up under the one-child policy, rolled out in 1979. They are "more likely to be spoiled and self-centered," says demographics expert Cai Feng. "As adults, children of this generation lack the inclination to support their parents." Forty-two percent of Chinese families in 2005 consisted of an old couple living alone, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.[/quote]

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