Abstract

Laws on filial support in four Asian countries.

Highlights

  • Throughout the world, national policymakers are being pushed, by ageing populations, low fertility rates and changing cultural values, to find innovative and sustainable policy solutions to meet the needs of older people

  • Filial-support laws create “a statutory duty for adult children to financially support their parents who are unable to provide for themselves.”[1]. The laws assign filial responsibilities and establish the extent to which adult children must provide for their ageing parents

  • In India, the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act of 2007 was an attempt to support the familial care of all old people, including those with no surviving children, and to stipulate civil and criminal penalties for noncompliance.[8]

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Summary

Laws on filial support in four Asian countries

Throughout the world, national policymakers are being pushed, by ageing populations, low fertility rates and changing cultural values, to find innovative and sustainable policy solutions to meet the needs of older people. Since the mid-1990s, policy-makers in Bangladesh, China, India and Singapore have developed filial-support laws as a way of meeting some of these needs Such laws are not panaceas for addressing all of the problems associated with sociodemographic change, in resourcelimited settings, they can help persuade families to provide a greater share of the social and health-care needs of their old members. In Bangladesh, the Parents Maintenance Act of 2013 specifies that noncompliance should lead to fines and, if the fines go unpaid, a period of incarceration.[9]

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Singapore Maintenance of Parents Act
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