Kids who neglect parents named, shamed

02 August 2016 - 09:58 By ©The Daily Telegraph

A Chinese village is naming and shaming people who do not care for their parents, plastering their pictures on billboards and rolling out plans to broadcast details of their "crimes" on loudspeakers. The village drew up the rules after local elderly people raised concerns that they were not being treated well by their offspring.Caring for parents is considered the most sacred of Chinese virtues, but decades of economic growth have led many of today's generation to focus more on their careers than caring for parents.Huangfeng village in the south-western Sichuan province drew up regulations to shame those considered guilty."Filial piety is China's greatest virtue," said Zhang Yiping, local party village secretary."And Chinese people also hate losing face, so making their bad behaviour public will make them ashamed and persuade them to change their ways."Zhang said village chiefs "try to talk" to offending children to persuade them to improve. If they continue to treat their parents badly, the village puts their personal details, their photograph and the specifics of what they have done wrong on a public billboard."We are planning to shame villagers who don't fulfil filial duties on loudspeakers from January," Zhang said.The village leader denied the rules violated people's rights to privacy."The rules were approved at the village committee by our representatives, so they are perfectly legal," he said.China is one of a handful of countries to have laws that allow the elderly to force their adult children to take care of them.More than 1000 elderly Chinese people have reportedly gone to court to force their offspring to pay assistance costs...

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