No more abandoned parents
Sunday, 22 April 2007 12:00am
©New Sunday Times
By Tan Choe Choe
Datuk Paduka Badruddin Amiruldin says that instead of asking the government to spend more money to build nursing homes or old folks homes, it would be better if we get the children to care for their elderly parents
Growing reports of children abandoning their parents in old folks homes or not supporting them have prompted Jerai member of parliament Datuk Paduka Badruddin Amiruldin to urge parliament to enact a law to punish the errant children. But president of the National Council of Senior Citizens Organisations Malaysia, Lum Kin Tuck, thinks the proposed law is unnecessary and, if introduced, ‘can be a disgrace to us’. TAN CHOE CHOE speaks to them
Law will deter children from taking easy way out.
Abridged.
SOURCE: newsundaytimes
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This is posted as an item of interest, in the continuing debate about "Who should look after the elderly".
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