Chinese law requires aging parents must be visited

Over 80 perhaps. Not 60!

Would a text do? Phone calls always come at the wrong time.

I wonder what happens if the aging parent has gone out? I could foresee this working to my advantage!!

Will the parents have to fill in a Questionnaire after each visit to report on whether their child was polite enough to them, whether they brought a gift, how long they stayed etc. etc.?

Who'd want a son or daughter turning up just because they had to?

I wonder if this is to do with the outworkings of the one child policy and the so called 4-2-1's - children who have to look after their 2 parents and their 4 grandparents. I should imagine that some overburdened children buckle under the strain so that the state is having to add an element of compulsion.

On a lighter note, a young Chinese friend of mine has a younger brother, which meant that their parents had to pay a massive fine. Throughout his childhood, whenever my friend asked his parents for a new bike or toy the response was always the same: No, we can't afford it. We have to pay for your brother! I am amazed that these 2 young men now get on as well as they do.

I know phone calls have gone down in price a lot these days but myself and my late wife went abroad in the past.
When we arrived at our destination we would generally contact my parents to say we had arrived safely and they would contact my wife's parents.
About half way through our holiday my wife would ring her parents and they would contact mine.
Both parents had our holiday number in case of problems.
I suppose if Chinese law prevailed at that time we could have been prosecuted.
We even contacted our parents in this way on our honeymoon.

Frank

No, it wouldn't Frank. This is about failure to visit or contact ageing parents, in theory. You contacted yours.

whenim64

We contacted my parents at the beginning of the holiday but I did not contact them directly till we came home so I suppose I had no direct contact for 2 weeks.
They were contacted indirectly through my wife's parents.
Now if my daughters go on holiday they call on their mobile phones.
When they were abroad for a week they called about 3 times as it only costs about 50p connection charge and they then use some of the minutes included in their tariff.

Frank

How awful to think they were visiting because they had to. Mind you, there are occasions when I feel that mine do just that. (Cynical or what?)

Frank , has it occured to you that they called 3 times to make sure you did not forget your bums & tums session .

Dutiful daughters ???

Frank ........ Oh, never mind!

I am already in credit by about 500 years and as I am quite literally never away!

And they'd want feeding.

Thinking if all those grandparents in these forums who are denied contact with their grandchildren....and wondering if this law makes a difference to that?????