So much for "Traditional Family Values": The People’s Daily has an interesting article about an "anti-parents" group on the Chinese SNS site Douban.com.
"Sun considered himself the world’s unluckiest man until he joined the "anti-parents" group on social networking website Douban.com on August 19. He found peers who had suffered even more traumatic childhood experiences: domestic abuse, bullying, intimidation, generation gap issues, excessive parental dominance, improper education and incest, according to the group’s records. Established on January 18, 2008, the bloc attracted more than 30,000 registered Internet users that either explicitly accuse their parents or share a curiosity about the issue."
Meanwhile, the China Daily reports on newly proposed legislation that would require adult children to regularly visit their parents by law.
"An official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs said wherever conditions permit, they will be required to extend old age allowance to citizens over 80 and provide them free medical and other health services.In traditional Chinese thinking, children who have come of age have the duty to support and assist their parents. However, among the total number of 167 million elderly people, half of them are living alone without children, and some of them cannot even get good care, said the report."
And finally, Shanghaiist cites a Shanghai Daily report claiming that a few key Chinese municipalities including Beijing and Shanghai will share a marriage registration database in an effort to "prevent bigamy and cheating in marriage" and asks, yet again, how such a law would be enforced. The same question, of course, applies to the adult children visitation legislation.
