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It is illegal Today our government hands out a new law, that is, "Not visiting your old parents OFTEN is illegal"..maybe you can be sentenced to prison because of this Act.Actually, I don't really like this new policy..here are some reasons 1. We don't have a perfect holiday system guarantee.Many of my friends don't have vacations even when those national holidays are on the way, they don't have National Day(5-day holiday), or Middle-Autumn Day..or something else, so they don't have time for going home to see their parents..and after one or two years I'll be like that,too..Working all years long and no vacations at all. So it is easy for a Chinese citizen to break the law. 2. What about those students studying abroad? 3. What about those people who are working very far from their hometown? 4. Well..Where on the earth is our government's responsibility for taking care of old people?..Isn't there any insurance? 5. In our country, we've been obeying to this stupid"One Child Policy"..and many family only have one child..so this law will give them more pressure. 6.Taking care of your parents is more of an ethical concept..how to implement this law? What exactly does it mean of"going visit your parents OFTEN"?..How often should it be? A day, two days?.A month, two months? A year?.A lot of years?. 7. Who is going to supervise those people who cannot visit parents often? Well..I was wondering why our government doesn't do any practical things?..For example, no matter how many times our government hands out new policies against rapidly rising house prices, the prices still speed up...
Jul 1, 2013 3:10 AM
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China government is also considering about the population aging. A few weeks ago(I don't know exactly when the law passed), I heard that China government passed the law that children have to visit their parents often. Population aging is a big issue in many places. It is good to hear that government is trying to do something to relieve the economical or psychological stress of silver citizen whose children do not visit their parent anymore. The fact that government care about the silver citizen itself is very respectable thing. But nobody can enforce the ethical problem by law. I think the government should implement the policy to improve the old citizen's social benefit. For example, Government subsidize the poor childrens to visit their parents often. Or Government can initiate some social insurance to guarantee the life after retire. Why only children have to be responsible for their parents ? Government have nothing to do with old citizen?! Government don't need to make more criminal. If I don't get the point of the policy, then tell me.
July 15, 2013
Such a policy flies in the face of another law of China, that the one who helps someone in distress may be liable for their support thereafter - the same law that makes people ignore the child run-over by motor vehicles, lying dying in the roadway. The legal system of China is full of contradictions.
July 2, 2013
@ Steve H...sometimes...you really cannot trust in mass media completely..they don't know all details and the editors give their own ideas not the REAl ones..so newspapers or TV stuff..those just show you partial aspects of something..if you wanna know, you gotta try it yourself..like many people say, OH, jeez...Chinese mandarin is so freaking difficult..but if you try learn it..you MAy not agree. There are many ppl who know Chinese<I mean non-Chinese folks of course> well on the Internet..thanks to the Internet..we can learn many things, but we love it, we cannot trust it completely...
July 2, 2013
@Steve H...I'm not that proud...becoz there are several types of countries..1. rich country, rich common people, like many european countries..2.rich common ppl, but the govern. is poor..maybe like US...3.Rich government, poor people..and China is the typical of this one...so yeah..our country is rapidly developing,and I AM proud of that..but as to the real truth..no..I need to take loans for studying and my parents do some manual labor..and most ppl I know are poor or just middle class...the house prices..and the quality of daily food..and so many problems.even I haven't graduated yet..I feel pressure.
July 2, 2013
Yes, I support your freedom of speech on the internet. The Chinese one-child policy has been a great success in ending overpopulation growth in China, and the Chinese population is expected to decline by 2030, and maybe this should then allow the Chinese government to adopt a more liberal two-child policy. ... :) ... Aren't you proud that the one-child policy will help your country to achieve the greatest economic wealth of all the countries in the world by 2030?
July 2, 2013
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