Should You Take Care of Your Aging Parents Even If You're Married?

hi zim1fw, I heard some people say that it is not our obligation to take care of our parents. I also see couples bringing their parents on home for the aged. Perhaps, they cannot take care anymore of their old parents but if you will ask me how I feel with this, I will say that I won't do same with my parents. I am still single and do not have a family of my own. My parents are both old now but still they work for us to have good education. I cannot forgive myself to abandon them once I have a family of my own. Its because even though it is very hard for them to raise us, they still do. And now, it is our turn to give what is due to them. I heard also some people who says bad words to their parents when their parents are asking money for them such as it is not their will to be born in this world and they don't have the obligation to take care of their old parents. Anyway, I see of it as very rude. Even it is not our will to be born still we are lucky we experience what life is. If not of our parents, we cannot be in the place where we are standing right now. To all the success I get, my parents have a share with this. Weather I will have a rich or poor family life, if they need me I will still help them no matter what. Because they are my only parents and I do not want to come to the time that I will regret neglecting them.

Well i beleive thats our duty to take care of them at their old ages, as they are almost kids for us. So all needs of them has to be fulfilled by their children so they will be blessed.

Yes, I think that we should still take care of our parents even if we're married. Ever since I was a kid, I promised my parents that I will still take care of them when they get old and even if I'm already married and even if I already have kids. It's like I'll still take care of them no matter what, because they're my parents. Maybe I'll just make them live beside my home, and then I will be the one to provide all their needs and whenever they need help, I will be there.

I moved out, away from my parents, years ago. I look for every opportunity to be with my mom now. My dad passed away sometime back. It's true that she's old. But there's a lot more to that. I'm not sure either if there is a turning point in my life that prompted me to do that. It's not the guilty conscience either. Perhaps 'absence makes the heart fonder'. But as I look back in time and thought of all the wonderful things that my parents had done for me, the opportunity to be what I am, the years of sweat and tears and always tried to be cheerful in front of us, my perception changed. I want to take care of my old mom. When she feels good I feel good!

Well, for us Filipinos, we have a tight family values where in we tend to take care our parents in one roof even we have other obligations...