New Chinese law: Visit your parents

During Lunar New Year once again in October during National Day holiday - Lola Wang, a 28-year-old marketing officer in Shanghai, shandong six hour journey to twice a year to see her parents makes .
only child, tells CNN.
Wang's dubious policy of one child and three decades of economic reforms have accelerated the decline of the traditional extended family in China, many young people have suffered from.
It would also support the growing number of older people as a burden to deal with is a matter of concern for China's new leaders.
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The new law
This week launched a new national law "often" visit their parents and their financial and spiritual needs are met to ensure that parents of 60 children older than is needed.
"People do not travel enough to be their parents are blaming young people," Wang agrees with the objectives of the law He says.
"Admittedly, some of them care about their problems with their parents. Excuse to use my career and long working hours, but I have a little vacation and my parents too stay away. "
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According to AP, China at the end of 2011, 185 million people above the age of 60. In 2015 the figure is expected to rise 221 million by 2050 one-third of China's population will be considered elderly.
Negligence
"Old law protecting the rights and interests" of children by their elderly parents ignored after a wave of reports about China in December was amended by the legislature.
Jiangsu province, a particularly horrific case, a local television station, a farmer with a 440lb sow in a pigsty 100-year-old mother had kept.
Chen Shoutian her mother told the station were lucky to be there "because they feel it is easier to stay here," he said.
A small pension and social welfare systems, especially in rural areas, to support older people are dependent on their children usually means.
More than a fifth of Peking University's National School of Statistics, live below the poverty line.
Changing values
Respect elders deeply engrained in Chinese society, but traditional values ​​of filial piety as modernity has been weakened by the crowd.
"Traditional family support system is eroding for many reasons and the government would like to slow the process," Albert Park, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Director of Emerging Markets Institute said.
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The children look after their parents in an attempt to evade responsibility for their inheritance stipulates can not give up. If they refuse to take care of their children, their parents must pay a monthly allowance adds.
Their legislation also allows the elderly to sue but does not specify the process or what penalties they might face.
It can also be difficult to enforce, Beijing Yingke Law Firm is the Ding Yiyuan. The Guangzhou Daily newspaper said the law failed to qualify the word "often". He said some elderly people were more likely to sue their own children's.
Controversial
Introduction of legislation has proved controversial. Some of her work, studies or other opportunities to move away from home for those who say that puts tremendous pressure on.
In the United States, whose only child is studying for a master's degree Chiang Zhegang, 50,, the "distortion parent child relationship," said
He said his daughter grew up and graduated a job to come back to the small town big city like Shanghai or Beijing is expected to peak.
"My daughter is a burden both physically and spiritually do not want to," he told CNN.
"For me, the most important thing is my daughter's career. Parents as a child, my daughter's education and has invested so much time and now I want him to be successful."