Delete the Parents

At what point in our lives do we start thinking about caring for our parents?  I would hazard a guess that it is the first time you see your grandparents being cared for as a result of them not being able to care for themselves.  Some children see their parents, move their grandparents into care and it doesn't seem to bad.  It can often be said that if the care home is run well and the grandparent receives plenty of visits that it might be the best thing for them.  Coupled with this is the idea that the grandparent believes they are a burden on the family and will persuade them that it is something they would like to do thereby releving the guilt of the parents.

This is now common practice in the UK and most of the time the people moving into the homes have no choice.  The children they have spent their lives cherishing and caring for cannot wait to get them safely tucked up in a home.  Obviously, this is not always the case.  Some people take their parents into care, whether it be with pleasure or out of guilt and a sense of loyalty.  These people are in steady decline and are usually the people who have enjoyed a great upbringing with parents who gave everything for them to succeed in their endeavours.

Can society be blamed for this demise in caring for those who loved you so much?  The culture of our society has changed so much since the introduction of multiculturalism and a more diverse society with a flippant regard to religion or simple values and standards.  There are so many religions, how can one be right?  That is the thought of the young of today and of those who grew up in the eighties and nineties, which leads them to believe that there is no real God and that religion is worthless.  They have no regard for the values that religion brings to a society and how it can guide those who follow it to a better life.  I myself am not religious, however, I am willing to follow christianity to a certain extent to at least install the values to my family that are required for tolarence and understanding.  The Government should be developing a means of instilling into children the importance of these values without crossing the religious divide so that schools can once again teach pupils without a backlash from religious parents.  This may be the only way some children will ever receive guidance.

In other countries and cultures such as China and Africa the family is the centre of everything.  These cultures wouldn't think twice about putting a family member in a home.  Only the most developed countries in western society now provide care homes on a mass scale in the knowledge that the selfish, greedy, money hungry society that capitalism has created will continue to offload their parents in this way.  Although, the UK is still behind in comparison to Europe in terms of professionalism and standards with regards to looking after the elderley.

The standards of caring in the UK should not be an issue.  If the good people of Britain started "looking in" to their family again instead of constantly looking out at what they can gain for themeslves, the elderley could once again feel needed, useful and most importantly cared for.  This generation needs to set the example for the next, otherwise,  we will be the ones being shot into space!