While having a law that enforces filial piety may not be the perfect solution to keeping families together, it does impose some sense of responsibility on the children towards their parents.
FILIAL piety, or respect for one’s elders — a concept based on Confucianism where the younger generation is culturally mandated to take care of their parents — has always been a large part of our culture.
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