In Shanghai, adults who don't visit parents could have credit scores lowered

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In Shanghai, adults who don't visit parents could have credit scores lowered

SHANGHAI: -- Chinese adults who fail to visit their parents or phone them regularly could see their credit scores lowered as punishment, Chinese media has reported.

The new set of regulations, which take effect on May 1 in Shanghai, are designed to compel children to "visit and send greetings often" to their elderly parents, CaixinOnline reported.

The policy aims to address a major social ill in China: parents forsaken by adult children who have moved away from home to the city in search of a better life. In China, it's particularly grievous as it violates the filial piety at the centre of the culture.

Full story: http://www.smh.com.au/world/in-shanghai-adults-who-dont-visit-parents-could-have-credit-scores-lowered-20160413-go529n.html


-- Sydney Morning Herald 2016-04-13

[Speedo1968]

And what about parents who cant be with their children because of China's internal migration policies ? The parents who need to work in different districts are not allowed to have their children with them.

[JeffreyO]

What about people like myself who simply don't get along with their families? Also, how is China going to prove who has been visiting who? He-said she-said?

[Kabula]

Most children who don't want to stay in touch with their parents is because they hate them for many reasons some being they were abandoned emotionally, perhaps sexually, physically and mentally abused and more. Just more of the same, unreasonable, abusive control in my opinion.

[hawker9000]

You know, there will be some softheads that see absolutely nothing wrong with this. For them, more intrusive government is the solution to everything. In this case, if the child isn't showing appropriate "filial piety", then simply hold the government gun to his head & that'll fix it. This more & more is passing for logic in the west as well.