Chong Eng (wearing beige dress) encouraging a boy to offer a cup of tea to his mother at the Parents Day carnival at Dewan Ng Yam Huat in Bukit Mertajam, Penang.
IT is time to enact a law to compel financially sound children to take care of their parents as a measure to curb the issue of abandoned old folk.
Penang Women and Family Development, Gender Inclusiveness and Non-Islamic Religious Affairs Committee chairman Chong Eng said many parents were being left on their own, in hospitals or old folk’s home nowadays.
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