Groups against law forcing kids to look after parents


Prof Dr Tengku Aizan Hamid said having laws, such as Singapore’s Maintenance of Parent Act, was not the way forward for Malaysia.

“I am not too keen on it. It’s not a natural thing to have to force children to look after their parents,” said the director of the Institute of Gerontology at Universiti Putra Malaysia, which conducts research on aging.

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