BE GOOD TO YOUR PARENTS\u2026.OR ELSE!<\/p>\n
Appreciating your parents is the only hope for civilization.
\nThe Chinese Government & Lynn Ruth<\/p>\n
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China has decided it is a punishable crime for adult children to neglect their parents and I think that is a very wise decision. Wouldn\u2019t it be wonderful for us all, if every nation followed suit?<\/p>\n
It is about time someone took steps to stop the shameless way grown progeny are treating their parents these days. Elderly parents sit at home in their wheel chairs or on the sofa, counting the moments \u2018til one of their offspring remembers that they are too weak and tired to get to Tesco\u2019s; the hours tick by, their tummies gurgle, their heads ache and they stare at the door, praying it will open and the heir to their estate will appear bearing bubble and squeak and even a bit of pudding.<\/p>\n
After all, parents have every right to expect their children to be there for them. Didn\u2019t they clean up Junior when he got a bloody nose?\u00a0 Didn\u2019t they give their little princess dancing lessons so she could express her inner feelings? They let her get that disgusting tattoo of Frankenstein chewing a bunny and they never said a word when she appeared at the breakfast table, her hair dyed purple and three rings in her nose.<\/p>\n
And that was before they became teen-agers.<\/p>\n
They looked the other way, when their little darlings sold pot to the neighborhood grade-school kids, and the countless times they threw up on the couch from an overdose or got too affectionate with one another.\u00a0 Remember that?<\/p>\n
Didn\u2019t they sacrifice that extra cruise, and the trip to see penguins copulate on an iceberg just so their son could go to university and their daughter could afford that abortion?\u00a0 Of course they did.<\/p>\n
And that is why the Chinese Government decided to step up to the plate and remind us that we owe Mummy and Daddy big time.\u00a0 They were the ones who kept us alive through the bullying, the bike accidents, the shattered limbs and broken hearts.\u00a0 Now, it is the children\u2019s turn to keep their parents comfy and warm \u2018til they breathe their last.\u00a0 After all, there is always time to change the will, if they feel unloved.<\/p>\n
Not that it will be easy if the law becomes universal. Take Mary Louise:\u00a0 There she is galloping though her day, getting the kids to school, packing their lunches, rushing off to the office, picking up her darlings, and taking them to tap dancing and soccer, driving home, giving the house a quick dust, fixing dinner, greeting the father of her gang with a drink, serving food, cleaning the kitchen and collapsing in front of the telly.\u00a0 At midnight, she and her hubby stagger up to bed, too exhausted to do what they used to do before they tied the knot. Suddenly, she sits bolt upright, snaps her fingers and says, \u201cOH MY GOD!!!\u00a0 I forgot to visit Daddy.\u00a0 Now, we\u2019ll never pay off this mortgage.\u201d<\/p>\n
And if her partner is a good sort, he says, \u201cDon\u2019t worry darling. I will visit you every Tuesday and bring chocolate.\u201d<\/p>\n
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