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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asians used to have joint families, love/respect for elderly, females tend to be SAHM and hiring help was rather affordable, hence it was doable to care for elders at home. Also there were no good nursing homes and often unaffordability, guilt, social condemnation were deciding factors.

Asian-American families here are in a different world. They have nuclear families and female working so its tougher to do it at home. Asian-Americans who immigrated as adults, often get their parents here and end up caring for them at home as parents are familiar with life here and it's difficult to adopt in old age. Many doesn't understand english well enough so its tougher for them to live in a nursing home.

Its tough regardless of race, both on elderly and for caregiver, specially if caregiver has small children, bad health or limited budget. [/quote]

For Chinese families  isn’t more of an obligation to care for the son’s parents than the daughter’s?

I heard that is one reason more girls were put up for adoption than boys. (In mainland China , where they do not have social security, a was like an insurance policy). [/quote]

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