Senior Citizens,Parents,We as Children,are we Responsible to take care of them?

Actually in our country, it is every child's responsibility to take care of one's parents. When my mother was still alive I took care of her. We never bring our parents to any home for the aged institutions.

Here is a Biblical view. God gave the law: Honor your parents. It is not a suggestion but one of the Ten Commandments. One way of giving honor to your parents is being there for them in their senior years. In the coming generations you will see a decline in the number of children helping their parents. Parenting has taken a back seat to earning money nowadays. With the disappearance of traditional family values, children sent to day care while one or both parents work, single parent families, and children no longer being taught Biblical priciples, children will not feel obligated to do anything for their parents. If you want your children to be around for you when you reach your senior years, I hope that you raised them up in a way that will ensure that they will be there for you.

of course i would take care of them. i'm taking care of a parent now, but there comes a point and time when theres only so much that one individual can do. even the care giver for the older parent certainly needs help from others if situations get bad enough for their elder parent. other family members should be willing to help out for the sick individual and not just one family member. for me if someone needs 24/7 care i can certainly understand a caregiver having their elder put in a nursing home. the caregiver also has a life of their own they should be willing to live too and shouldn't just be totally dedicated to the sick loved one. that doesn't mean the caregiver has given up on their sick loved one. they can still go visit them in the nursing home on a regular basis. even caregivers need help and not just the sick. happy mylotting

Honestly, I wouldn't call it responsibility. We don't take care of our parents when they can not take care of themselves anymore because we have to. We do it because we love them. I think it comes from the basic instinct of our emotion. It's all about love. :-x But maybe, we should understand people who put their parents in institutions, too. Sometimes, when both parents have to work and kids are in school, nobody is around to take care of the older ones. What if they have alzheimers or if they're senile. What if something goes wrong when nobody's watching them? What if we can't afford to get a nanny to watch over them while we're not around? So many if's that we have to consider. Right now, I live with my parents and at 60ish, they are both pretty cool. My mom is 67 and my dad is 64. My dad is diabetic and my mom has high blood pressure. They both take maintenance but they still take of me like I was their baby girl. :-)

In our country like we should take care of our parents.We are only responsible for our parents.They have taken care us till now and we should reciprocate our love towards our lovable parents.

as you know, we were kids, our parents were there for us, and they would take care of us, and would manage for us all the things we needed. So it is time for us to give them back what they gave us, we should realize that whatever we are today is because of our parents.

of course as their children its our responsibility to take care of them when they got old and who will expect to take care of them if not us, i understand that some of us are too busy with work and also having our own family thats why some of them they put their old parents to institution for older people and let nurses and doctors take care of them but then they need our love and affection as they take care of us when we are still a baby and even feed us when we dont know how to handle sppon and fork yet, they took our hand when we are not able to walk yet though its their responsibility as a parents and its also our responsibility as their children to give that love in return.

of course we should be responsible of our parents when they get old, come to think of it your parents have been trough hardships raising you and taking care of you when you needed the utmost care and love in the world... How could you possibly deceived your parents, there's no way I would do that to my parents. I would always respect, love and care for them for the rest of my life, I could possibly be selfless and not be married just to take care of them... I love my parents more than I could express it in words...

When my mother was alive I helped to care for her and found it an honor. It broke my heart when she actually apologized to me for being a "burden". I didn't feel her a burden at all! I loved her! Years later I found myself working in a nursing home and I saw enough there to determine that I would rather die than go into one. They put you on a schedule and rush you to the cafeteria and rush you through your meals and rush you to get dressed in the morning...no matter how arthritic you are! They have to maintain their schedule so they put people on an assembly line and you just don't treat people like that in my book! I was getting yelled at by my boss for spending too much time in my patients' rooms! I quit after just six weeks of that! I made my daughter promise me never to put me into a nursing home! I would rather die first! I have always been grateful that my mother was never in one!

i agree, putting one's parents in special homes for the old is totally unacceptable. My mother did everything for me, even quit college when she got pregnant so she could take care of me and now i'm a sophomore in pre-med school and if at anytime she is unable to take care of herself i won't have 2nd thoughts on having her as one of my most priorities. WE owe our parents this kind of attention and gratitude, telling them we love them and then put them in special homes is relly ungrateful. They would feel abandoned either way or another.