We all talk and are working on better alternatives and ways to help care for seniors today, whether it is our parents others, but in India, they are taking a different approach...parental neglect...could get a month in jail..BD
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indians who neglect their ageing parents face possible prison under a new law passed by worried politicians.
"At least now the elderly can have a roof to live under and food to eat in their old age," Gyan Prakash Pilania, a Hindu nationalist MP, was quoted as saying in local news reports.The law also allows authorities to order children or relatives to pay a monthly maintenance allowance to the aged.
Under the law, Indians can face up to a month in jail if found guilty of parental neglect.
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