Victoria Lobo, Goa / Kuwait

Our parents deserve the best and our love and devotion when they grow old and should not be left in the care of Aged Homes where they long for the love of their own children and to care, cuddle and hug their grandchildren. Actually they take better care of their grandchildren than the nannies they leave their children.

The government should go ahead with this Bill and Law for it will be good for the old parents since they suffer from their children’s harsh treatment after doing so much for them. It would really bring justice to the aged parents and they can live peacefully.

My grand-mother told me a story about a son and mother. When the mother became old his wife told him to keep her in a small hut near the home as she broke her many plates and told him to a give a wooden plate which he did when his small son saw this he asked his father. Then after a few months the grand-mother died and the grandson collect the plate seeing his son the father asked him why he was taking the plate. The son retorted in this same plate I will give you to eat when you grow old and keep you in the same hut where you placed my grandmother. So see this is an example for us to see what takes place when you do wrong to our parents.

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agnel fernandes, kundapur/uaea

I have read your remarks, indeed so true and is happening quite often. It is a lesson for everyone if we are one among those unfortunate ones. Let us remember that life is cycle and one day we can be in that situation.

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abba, abudhabi

Love is replaced by law.now think what reason government forced do so.  I think one reason is mothers have no time to teach their childrens our culture.(makkalige maneye modala pathashale)

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Alfred J. Rebello, Kundapur/Dubai

Once I read. There was a family who had a son, staying together with the mother of the husband. The mother due to old age was falling sick every now & then. The wife, though was taking care of her got fed up and told her husband to get rid of her as she did not want to take care of her anymore. The husband, though giving some excuses everytime and postponing but one day the arguement reached to the extreme and the wife offered the choice, either she or the mother. Husband had no alternative but to oblige his wife because she is the part of his family and not the mother and therefore he decided to leave the mother in a far place.

He took a old broken chair and made mother to sit in that chair and left the house together with his son. When they reached to a place from where mother can not come back, they left her there with the chair and started to return. At that time son told the father to take that chiar back. Father told him the grand mother can sit in that chair and it is old and broken. Son replied, I need that chair to bring you here when you become old & sick.

Therefore, my dear friends, we forget that we will be in the same shoes of our parents one day and perhaps it is too late to realise what we have done to our parents when they needed us the most. Though our parents are not the members of our family, we are the members of their family. If at all we are in this world it is because of them. Therefore, let us take care of our parents not because of the rule but because to return a little back to them for their sacrifices to make us a man or a woman.

One can understand there could be some unavoidable situations but let us take care our parents maximum we can. Here I give a true story. There was a drunkard who never took care of his parents though he could but still staying with them. Once his friend asked him, why don't you take care of your parents. You shaould take care of your parents, because of them you are in this world, he replied, who says, I am here because they enjoyed their life. For such people I have nothing to say.

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Ashraf Sheikh, Belvai/Dammam

Very good move and step taken by Government.

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Gladys Mudarth, Mangalore

We brought our children into this world and it is our duty to give them the best of education and then everthing else falls in place. Do not part with your assets before you die. Make your children just nominees and you will have no problems.

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K. S. Mayya, Mangalore/South Korea

What a shame that we need a law to practise the obvious. School textbooks are filled with parables to make the point clear already when kids are growing. While some might see this as government intervening into their personal lives, this is one such positive example wherein the government finally shows that "where there is a will there is a way". It remains to be seen how this law will bring relief to the needy.

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A.D'Cunha Shenoy, Mangaluru

Over the years while the Indian society troading along with affluency, has miserably failed its purpose in life. I was thinking this only happens in the "Western World" where the seniors have been basically dumped in seniors homes. The moral fabric and our taditional values have been torn apart among us in India now. Money, name, fame and materiality has overtaken the weak minds of people. In this process, the very own are neglectd or made to live in senior citizen homes or are totally abandoned.

The reason is quite self explanatory- selfishness, individualism and materiality. Wecome to the West. The Bill of course can be challenged since this bill has no appeal process. Challenged or not perhaps forcing the children to take care of the parents has to meet the test of the times. When "love" is replaced by "law" would this measure be effective? I would have my own doubts. Nonetheless, this is a step in right direction, at least, to be aware that someone is watching, albeit legally.

Would the parents be succesful in taking the children to court where there is abuse? Again, we need to wait and see. Whatever the legal implications be, the fact of the matter is we must take care of our elders and that is a given, not in the eyes of law but in the eyes of humanity and our relationships. I am quite saddenned to see parents, lets not call them senior citizens, who are living either in ashrams being neglected or paid seniors homes when their children either in kuwait or USA making a livelyhood after leaving their livelyhood back home.

Ancestoral homes and properties are being sold, parents are being taken out to paid shelters and children have taken a flight to make a living elsewhere. And the society calls this prosperity in the despair of our loved ones. I am qustioning what has happened to our wisdom being so called literate? a wisdom our illiterate parents had. Do we want law to love and take care of our elders?

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richard cutinho, mundkur/abu dhabi

good very good. a bold step.

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