Times have changed. What were once allegorical tenets bound in Confucian principle, school teachings about deference and respect—a son strangles a tiger to save his father搤虎救父, a daughter stows oranges to give to her mother怀橘遗亲 — have become prosecutable mandates in China. On July 1, the government revised its Law for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Elderly People, newly stipulating the obligation of adult children to obey, please and, tend to the “spiritual” and financial needs of their parents. It’s already drawn blood: a local court in Wuxi, Jiangsu province ordered a daughter and her husband visit her elderly mother at least once every two months or face fines and detention.
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