Legal Obligation In China

In China in July 2013, a law was imposed to force children to provide the emotional and physical needs of their parents. It includes that children should visit the parents often, or they will face fines and punishments. One of the most punishments they will face is going to the prison. In China also, parents can ask their adult children to sign an agreement to support the family. According to Francine Russo, a Journalist and speaker in Time Network, A woman found a negligent in visiting her 77-year-old mother. The court charged her under the Law on Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly. According to China organization website, the Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution to protect the lawful rights and interests …show more content…
If a legal obligation is imposed to force children to be responsible to support and take care of their parents after the adulthood, In order to recoup the same responsibilities the parents had offered to them. In China for instance, over than 200 million people over the age of 60 might face familial strife and resentment. Because the obligation would legalize the assumption that parents can sue their adult children. In India, Israel and Taiwan there are laws that force adult children to support their parents. Also in some American states, such as California and Illinois, a civil law allows parents and grandparents to sue their children and grandchildren if they are in need of support that their children do not provide willingly. Opponents argue that it is necessary to enact obligation to force children to take care of their elders, especially in the time of the economic crisis is plaguing the world. However, the relationship between children and their parents does not need a mandatory law to impose assistance to parents. The countries should insure a good life for its people who are in aging …show more content…
While wealthy sections of society are more likely to be able to provide their parents with greater opportunities, poorer adult children would suffer twice. Firstly, they will not be able to offer the best opportunities. Secondly, they will suffer because of the additional burden of their own wages in looking after their parents. This would trap lower income families in a circle of poverty that would be hard to break. Another reason is this law does not achieve justice for elderly people who need care and might fall in faults of their own because they do not have children. These people most likely to suffer if the state insists that care of the elderly are a family and not a state matter. Those people, who have no children by personal chance or circumstance, are likely to be excluded and neglected by following this obligation. Furthermore, people should have children for the right reasons and not simply because they want a sense of security when they grow older. Enacting this law would encourage people who have no real interest in parenthood to embark upon it and have more children in order to provide the