> Lonely-death cleaning companies promise to be a good investment in Japan. The culture’s legendary filial piety has gone the way of the samurai; children and grandchildren are often too busy or far away for regular visiting
Me and my partner have to divide our time between visiting four different families since our parents were both single parents. We usually take a summer vacation and a winter vacation, so that means each family really only gets to be visited by us once every two years.
When it comes time to care for them as "old folks" I have no idea what we're going to do. We're basiclly the only people in our family with the financial capacity to support our parents and/or siblings... And I'm not alone in this, there's millions of Americans in the same position. I guess we better start removing systems that support traditional families (e.g. support for single family homes over apartments / co-living) and instead create "syntehtic" families that will be easier to subsidize.
Me and my partner have to divide our time between visiting four different families since our parents were both single parents. We usually take a summer vacation and a winter vacation, so that means each family really only gets to be visited by us once every two years.
When it comes time to care for them as "old folks" I have no idea what we're going to do. We're basiclly the only people in our family with the financial capacity to support our parents and/or siblings... And I'm not alone in this, there's millions of Americans in the same position. I guess we better start removing systems that support traditional families (e.g. support for single family homes over apartments / co-living) and instead create "syntehtic" families that will be easier to subsidize.