Why do most elderly people in China rely heavily on their children instead of living independently?

Personally, I think why the elderly in China are so dependent on their children and don't want to live independently. This is a traditional custom in China. Parenting is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Like young people in China, they still depend on their parents when they grow up. Young people in China need the support of their parents to go to college. When they want to graduate or get a doctorate, they even need the support of their parents. It is also the same thing to ask parents to buy a wedding room and a wedding car. Young people don't feel strange at all.

Young people in China get married and have children. They need their parents to help them take care of or raise their children. In other words, their parents must cook by themselves, and they are only responsible for eating. Many parents are ordinary people. They give their children some money and give them the best years. When you are old, you have nothing, you don't rely on children, you live by what, and how to support yourself. If young people in China are the same as young people abroad, they can earn money to teach themselves when they grow up. If you get married, buy a house or a car, you don't have to worry about your parents if you have children. Even if you start a business, you don't have to give money to your parents.

In that case, China's parents can live independently around the age of 40. If you are healthy, you can earn money for decades to support yourself. Today's parents, money and initiative are all for their children, and many parents in their 70s are still helping their children. Their retirement salary, children have to spend a lot of money, young people do not spend their parents' money, and feel that they are suffering.

If young people in China are as independent as young people abroad. Do parents in China still need to rely on their children to provide for the elderly? If you have money, you can ask a nanny to take care of you when you can't walk, or you can go to a nursing home. If you are old, leave your children alone and live with more dignity. According to China tradition, China's parents should hope. When their parents want them to support the elderly, they want to do it according to the habits of foreigners. Sadly, you can't take less from your request, but you didn't take it into account when you gave it.

I feel ashamed to see such a problem. I think many young people are educated now, but they don't understand the truth at all. I can't think of such a simple fact. No wonder the old people in China live so hard and tired.