Percentage of the population in Europe that agrees with the following statement: “It is child’s duty to take care of ill parent.”
Percentage of the population in Europe that agrees with the following statement: “It is child’s duty to take care of ill parent.”
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I’m curious about how these answers change with age.
I feel i would say yes as a child and no as a parent. But I’m young.
FYI the nordics pay high taxes so that other people can do that
Wtf how is France in higher agreement with the statement than Spain?!
It also depends is there is a health care system in place that is made to deal with this. If I arrange for my parents to get the care they need I’m not technically the one that is providing it. Or if I help a couple of days per week in combination with professional healthcare workers I’m only partially taking care of them.
But all things considered, the difference from country to country is pretty remarkable.
Dutch: Sucks you had to wipe my ass, i’ll never wipe yours
Translation:” my children are my retirement”
What’s wrong with Spain? We all know Germans and their strange automaton ethics, but Spain should be part of the soulful, authentic, and human south.
Should this be a duty? We have a saying; “Bir baba 10 evlada bakar, 10 evlat bir babaya bakamaz” mean “A father can take care of 10 children but 10 children cannot take care of a father.”
If they took care of me until i could take care of myself, i will take care of them until they leave this world.
I expect some of my taxes to take care of them.
The percentage is related to whether retirement home/communities for the elderly people who need it are…communities/homes where there are medical professionals and caregivers, or they resemble prisons/asylums with subpar conditions (looking at you Balkans, Greece included).
France is very surprising here.
I wonder if they meant like a cold or palliative care. Because the way it’s phrased could mean both, but they’re not at all the same question
My first thought was making tea and getting medicine for your dad lying in bed with a fever, but everyone else is talking about hospices. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Dont the French abandon their oldies in Paris every August and head off to the beach?
depends if they were a shitty parent tbh
Ireland’s like “nah, those old people fucked up the housing market”
I think this is partly misleading, due to the way the question is asked, for example in the netherlands it is definetly not seen as a duty remind you almost nothing is seen as a duty. However quite a lot of people do take care of their parents or grandparents nothing wrong with that.
What the heck
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I think it depends on context. Sure, I’d help out, provide financial help if it was needed, etc and do what I can but I also wouldn’t (and I KNOW my parents wouldn’t want) me to devote my entire life to looking after them. That may be unpopular, but it’s the truth – they didn’t envision my life being their carer.
My mom took care ouf her father and told me to put her in a care home if she ever becomes bedridden.
I am not really sure how the statement is supposed to be interpreted.
If my parents were ill now, at my current age, I would support them in finding the proper care they need and help them in any way I can. In that regard the Dutch health system can take care of its elderly (from my family’s experience at least). Furthermore, in the Netherlands a lot of people take care of their parents.
However, I do not believe an 8 year old should have the duty to take care of its ill parents. And I think due to the phrasing of the statement (even if pretty much literally translated into Dutch) this is the way most Dutch people would interpreted it.
I expected Romania to be 90%+ but I’m not surprised if the younger generation is tired of it. Parents here love to guilt trip their children into taking care of them, especially the ones that were downright horrible since the beginning.
Unfortunately, our healthcare system is not good enough to have professionals take care of them. Many old people end up suffering for decades and dying all alone.
This shows why as a dutch women working in nursing il never be out of a job.
I feel like “duty” means “no matter what”.
If they weren’t a part of your childhood, mistreated you, or even disowned you for something, it’s definitely not a your duty.
I believe a child should take care of their parent out of love for them, not out of duty.
I took care of my dying mother and I would not wish that on my worst enemy. I wouldn’t say it’s a child’s duty, but if there is no one else to care for one’s parent and that parent was not a shitty parent, then I think it would be extremely morally questionable not to help.
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WTF Serbia, why aren’t you in the deep blue filial duty gang?
70?? What the hell, where were they asking, in an orphanage?
This isn’t about “being nice” but individual freedom. You could be 100% sure you would take care of your parents and still answer “no, it’s not my duty” in this survey. It’s arguably even kinder to take care of your loved ones because you want to and not because you “have to”.
I think this is a bit dubious.
the way I see there’s two interpretations.
1) putting them in a nursery home counts as taking care of ill parents
2) putting them in a nursery home doesn’t count as taking care of ill parents
Those Dutch man.
This question is WAY too open-ended, like come on
Really depends the relation between child and parent.
If my parents physically and/or mentally abuse, then they can keel over and die.
I would never allow my child to waste his life on taking care of some sick old man. I’d rather die. Life sucks even when you got dealt good hand, no need to add to it.
How ill are we talking about?