Do You Feel An Ethical And Moral Responsibility To Take Care Of An Aging Parent?
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I think you should look after your ageing parents, unless they beat you up all your childhood....then you should stick them in the Old Folks Home and never visit them again!
Seriously, I remember, some old folks never getting any visitory as the Home where I once worked for a while - I thourght it was terrible - "Their children should be ashamed of themselves"...etc.... then someone told me what hell those parents had given their children - I guess it was their comeuppance time - sad but true. Look after your children and love them and of course they will look after you!
Being a Christian though - heres the real challenge - look after your parents even if they were nasty. God give us grace.
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I don't feel that I have a Ethical or Moral Responsibility to take care of my parents, but I do when given the chance, now my mom is only 52 and my dad is only 50, they are both extremely healthy, luckily, no big issues. My dad had a European strand of mono that lead to Cronic Fatigue Syndrome, but other than that they are happy healthy people.
I will take care of them if need be though because I love them and they raised me wonderfully, teaching me right from wrong and they raised me to think for myself. I would be honored to be able to take them in and give them at least a small slice of what they gave me. They did live with my husband and I for about 6 months when they moved back to the states (they were living in Germany). We have also offered to move my husband's grandmother into our home, but she moved in with DH's mother in Co springs.
Being a Christian though - heres the real challenge - look after your parents even if they were nasty. God give us grace.
Trust me, in my case, my parents wouldn't want, nor would they accept, my help, (unless, of course, they were senile, and didn't know, and I certainly hope that wouldn't happen to them). And if was necessary for them to be in an old folks' home, (which I sincerely hope not. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, including my parents), like as not they'd have me run off the premises if I came to visit them.
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