The relationship that one shares with their parents is the purest one,its an example of unconditional love. It’s the most important relationship we have in the world. And yet it’s not an uncommon sight to see ageing parents being ill-treated or neglected by the same children who they’ve raised with so much love and care. Such people exist everywhere in the world, and to deal with them, China has devised a unique and clever solution! They are plastering their pictures on billboards and rolling out plans to broadcast details of their “crimes” on loudspeakers.

The village drew up the rules after local elderly people raised concerns that they were not being treated well by their offspring. “Filial piety” is considered the most sacred of Chinese virtues, but decades of economic growth have led the current generation to focus more on their careers than caring for parents.
A small Chinese village, Huangfeng, puts up the names and pictures of the people who don’t care for their ageing parents, as a way of shaming them right up on a public billboard! But since they continued with their bad-behaviour, they came up with a new idea to show their photographs, names, personal details, along with their wrongdoings on a billboard for everyone to see, So that they would be embarrassed.
Chinese law empowers ageing citizens to force their children to look after them. And according to the reports, more than 1000 old people took the matter to court to force their kids to do their duties. Taking the initiative a step further, in 2013, the law also made it compulsory for adults to give emotional support and pay regular visits to their elderly parents.

The village is not restricting this practice only to billboards. It’s now planning to shame people who don’t care for their parents by announcing their names on the loud speakers. China is one of a handful of countries to have laws which allow the elderly to legally force their adult children to take care of them. More than 1,000 elderly Chinesecitizens have reportedly gone to court to force offspring to pay assistance costs. But in 2013 Beijing took the regulations a stage further by passing a law that aims to compel adult children to provide emotional support and visit their ageing parents.
It listed a series of obligations to provide for the “spiritual needs of the elderly”, which include going home “often”. By 2050, 30 per cent of Chinese will be 60 or over, the UN estimates, versus 20 per cent worldwide and 10 per cent in China in 2000.

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