Connection

Ngozi Nwoke: Is It Your Duty To Support Your Elderly Parents Financially?

January 16, 2013 by Lounge Lady in Connection, Highlights, Relationships with 3 Comments

Supporting my elderly parents financially when the need arises is indeed my duty. It should actually be the joy and desire of every child to be able to support his or her elderly parents financially.

According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, duty is something that you feel you have to do because it is your moral or legal responsibility. It is morally expected of all parents to provide the basic needs of their children; to provide shelter, food, clothing, education. Many parents work long hours to be able to provide these basic needs. Some parents go through physical and emotional pain while fulfilling these moral obligations. They do so with the hope that their children will be better off than they were. Why then will it be strange to any child to take up the moral responsibility of supporting his/her elderly parents financially when the need arises; when they are not in the position to work for themselves anymore or what they have is not enough to sustain them?

Every child grows to be old and will need assistance from the younger ones, including financial assistance. The law of seed time and harvest applies here too. Sow the seed of financial help to your elderly parents and reap the same from your children when you are old. Long life is a blessing. It is a thing of joy to have elderly parents around, for children to see generations before them. Lack of support can lead to emotional break down, depression and ultimately death.

In family settings where they still encourage family ties, it is seen as irresponsibility on the part of any child who does not take care of his/her aging parents. The period of support from the child to the elderly parents is viewed as a time to show gratitude to the man and woman who brought him/her into the world, who loved him/her and sacrificed for him/her to be what he/she is now, who were available to provide direction and counsel whenever he/she needed one. Any person who falls short of this expectation is regarded as a bad egg in the family and a source of negative influence to the up coming generation.

Some people may argue that their parents failed in fulfilling their obligations to them as parents and so do not deserve any financially support now that they are elderly. True, they may not deserve it but I personally believe that it is morally right to support them. This act of duty will give them a lot to reflect on as long as they live. We can overcome evil with good, hatred with love. Supporting parents who do not deserve it is good for our peace of mind.

Parents-children relationship does not cease when the children are grown. The love that built this relationship is strong enough to sustain it. This love compels the children not only to provide for their elderly parents financially but also to make their last days or years peaceful, exciting and memorable.

_____________________________________________________________________

Writer: Ngozi Nwoke blogs at http://stepswithgod.com where you will find helpful information on how to take steps with God and succeed in every area of your life. She tweets as @NgoziNwoke

<—— Thanks for reading , please share before you go

Like us on Facebook

Tagged Believe!, Ngozi Nwoke, old people in nigeria, taking care of parents financially

3 Comments

TunbosunJan 17, 2013 at 8:49 amReply

Go Ngozi…

Enough said… It is better to give than to recieve, and worse to not give at all.
Children should find immense joy and peace in giving to their parent…. I do
debby baroJan 17, 2013 at 10:36 pmReply

It is my duty to do it with love and respect for them. It’s like one of the great charges that makes life good.
Halimat FrarinJan 24, 2013 at 4:58 amReply

This is absolutely free, very easy all you need is an internet facility.

for full details see my blog at http://www.work-at-homefree.webnode.com.

I have been using this system for some time now; I will be showing you how to make unlimited cash with your liberty reserve account and a perfect money account. I will try to make it as short as possible. But clear, just like every other business your interest and seriousness counts.

"The reward for hard work is success".

THIS IS HOW IT WORKS.

1. open a liberty reserve account at http://www.libertyreserve.com ( this is free).

2. Open a perfect money account at http://www.perfectmoney.com (this is free).

3. Fund your liberty reserve account with a minimum of 11 USD, because of transaction charges, actually you needed a minimum of 10 USD.

(Note: To fund or sell your liberty reserve, go to http://www.google.com to search for an e-currency exchanger close to you.)

4. Go to http://www.rapid-goldex.com , and exchange 10 USD from your liberty reserve account to your perfect money account.

1 LR——>1.28 PM, so 10 LR—-> 12.80 PM.

5. Go to http://www.superchange.ru or http://www.swapgold.com , exchange 12.80 Perfect money to 11.01liberty reserve.

1 PM —-> 0.86 LR, so 12.80 PM—>11.01 LR. You have gain 1.01 USD.

6. Repeat the exchange process from LR—->PM—>LR.

You can always increase your capital, because the more money you exchange the faster u make your cash. I can make up to 257 USD per day. Doing up to 25 exchanges per hour. But there is also no harm in starting small.

GOOD LUCK TO YOU.