Cultural question, please help?

2013-04-17 7:47 pm

Hi, in Asian culture, children are deemed to be indebted to their parents, and it is a common sense for them to "repay" their parents when they grow up. And by law, children have the obligation to pay a certain amount of financial aid regularly to their parents when they grow up.

I am just wondering, is it the same for Western countries? Do people in the west have concept of "repaying their parent"? And by law, is there any legal obligation to pay your parents financially?

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2013-04-17 7:52 pm

✔ 最佳答案

No. Parents have legal obligations to pay to support children, but not the other way round. Of course, most children feel an emotional obligation, but even that can be overwritten if the parents ar real jerks.

Lately, cases come up where parents are deeply in debt and refuse to live within their means. Children are not obligated to support this kind of thing.

In Western culture, for right or wrong, parents are supposed to have become able to support themselves, and the obligation is to the future.

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