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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wanted to clarify that elder care has never functioned due to "moral obligation", but due to an actual wealth transfer from the elders to the young not at time of death, but when the young reached adulthood (i.e. when the young were about 20 to start their own families and the "elder" was in their 40-50s). Eldercare has always been the job of the eldest son. The other siblings had to make their own way in the world and were never expected to care for their parents. Hence the strong preference for boys in all cultures (hopefully one survives or China one-child policy), inheritance laws not leaving daughters anything, factories and farms with names Somebody & Sons etc. [/quote]

I mean, speak for your own family. Mine were immigrants (both sides) and not farmers. Just normal lower middle class nurses, teachers, factory workers, dental hygienists, etc. And all of my grandparents aged in home until the very end (or until they went into the hospital and passed there following a short illness). Ditto my great grandparents (that I was alive to know) and many of my aunts/uncles/cousins. I cannot think of a single on who went to AL. This was moral obligation.

I don't think the youngers feel the same ability to do this, as they've all sort of scattered out of the rust belt state we grew up in. Some are still there and caring for parents. [/quote]

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