Destined to die alone, where will Chinese-style pension go?

According to statistics, during the ten years from 2000 to 20 10, the proportion of empty nesters in China increased from 42% to 54%, and in rural areas from 37.9% to 45.6%. In 20 13 years, the population of empty nesters in China exceeded 1 100 million. With the first generation of only-child parents entering the old age, the number of empty nesters in China will increase to more than 200 million in 2030, accounting for 90% of the total elderly population.

Today is the traditional Lantern Festival, and the Spring Festival holiday on 20 18 is coming to an end. Every Spring Festival, vagrants who work, study and start businesses in other places will return to their hometown to reunite with their elderly parents. As soon as the Spring Festival holiday is over, as the children who migrate back and forth like migratory birds set foot on their way home, many old people in the family returned to the empty nest state before the Spring Festival.

Two days ago, my children and grandchildren laughed around their knees, and in a blink of an eye, only the old couple were lonely and helpless. Even in some families, there is only an old father with rickets or an old mother with cataracts, so an old man with mobility difficulties lives alone in the countryside.

Thinking of this scene, I feel a chill in my back. This is the reality of our present Chinese-style pension and our future pension prospect. It seems that we are doomed to die alone. Where is the Chinese-style pension going?

I know a sad story about an old couple. The two old people have a good relationship. They supported each other and experienced various ups and downs in life. When they were about to leave, they both fell ill and lived in the same ward of the hospital.

The two old men reached a desperate agreement. If one of them unfortunately left first, then the living old man chose to commit suicide and follow the old man who left first. What a desperate choice this is, although there are two factors in this choice that make the old people feel good.

The wise old man knows that this is his most rational choice. After all, the two old people are very old, and the disease has tortured them for a long time. If they hadn't comforted each other, they might have died long ago. If an old man dies young, all that remains of the old man is to linger on without dignity. He might as well choose to commit suicide and look more dignified.

Some people may ask, don't these two old people have children? Don't their children care about their parents? Of course, the two old people have their own children, and they all live a happy and moist life in their respective homes in different places. Their daughter is a reporter in a medium-sized city, and their son is the boss of a small company in Beijing. Both of them are middle-class people with money and status. Their living standard of having a house and a car is a well-off life in the eyes of ordinary people in China at present.

It's not that they don't care about the two old people, and the monthly living expenses are still sent back to the two old people on time. Every Spring Festival, as children, they will also travel thousands of miles to visit their parents in remote mountain villages, or take their wives and children home to worship their ancestors and sweep the graves to celebrate the New Year with their parents.

The children of the two old people did nothing wrong. Their actions are exactly what we are doing every year now. They all look normal and beyond reproach. The old man's two children are also very filial. When the two old people were hospitalized, they also took time off to show filial piety to the old people and never defaulted on medical expenses.

Or two old people understand that their children can't leave their jobs and let them stay with them for a long time. So the two old people have driven their children out of the ward and let them both return to their jobs and small families.

In fact, the story about these two old people is still going on at all levels of contemporary China society, without stopping for the time being. Under the background of social transformation, China's traditional model of "raising children for the elderly" is gradually disintegrating. There are more and more "empty nesters" in families in rural areas and small towns, and they repeat this bleak story day after day.

Due to the social transformation in China, many traditional family structures have gradually disintegrated, and young people and middle-aged people who go out to work and start businesses, work and study have accounted for the vast majority. Only the old people and children who are still at school stay in their hometown. Even if the children don't travel far away, because of the influence of the one-child policy, the married young people can't take care of both parents at all, and they can't take care of both parents. One of the old people will always form an "empty nester".

As we all know, before the reform and opening up, few people went out and ran around. There was no family planning at that time, and every family had three or four children. At that time, the family structure was relatively stable, and we have all seen four generations living under one roof or even five generations living under one roof. At that time, it was basically in the golden age of "raising children to prevent old age". At that time, unless it was a family that lost children, the "empty nester" was simply unimaginable.

With the development of the times, the emergence and growth of the only child, the traditional society that we used to be proud of has gradually drifted away. It seems that those traditional virtues are hard to find in the new generation. When children grow up, they go to school, work and get married. After a series of things were completed, the children all moved into the new house. They have their own families and life circles.

Parents who have worked hard to raise their children and send them to school and work have broken their hearts for their children's marriage. Only then did I realize that my white hair had been born. Only at this time, they had to sigh that when their children grew up, they were helpless and old.

Nowadays, the only child has formed a new small family. If the young couple have decent jobs and high incomes, it is more realistic to take care of the parents of two families. Unfortunately, most of the jobs are not so good and the income is relatively low. The financial situation makes them feel stretched, so how can they afford to take care of their parents?

If the children's parents belong to national staff, they can have their own pensions, the children's problems are not too big, and the quality of life of the elderly is relatively guaranteed. However, for those children who grew up in rural areas and small towns, there is no place for their parents to provide for the elderly. Relying on the children's little strength will bring a heavy burden to the children and their small families.

Under this heavy burden, it is commendable that children with conscience and filial piety bite their teeth and shoulder the burden of providing for the elderly for both parents. However, under this heavy burden of life, the old people's pension life has no quality at all. If you meet selfish children, ignore their parents' support for the elderly, let their parents die in the countryside, or send back one or two hundred yuan of living expenses every month, then the situation of these elderly people will be even more bleak.

The two old people in the short story mentioned above, whose children are social elites, are still so miserable in their later years, not to mention many young people living at the bottom of society, and their parents' pension problem is even more uncomfortable.

It is of great significance for us to study various ways of providing for the aged abroad. I'm not an expert in these fields, and I won't show off something I don't know at all. I just want to say that for the advanced ways of providing for the aged abroad, combined with the actual situation in China, we will certainly find a way of providing for the aged that is suitable for China's national conditions.

As a functional department of the national government, we should publicize the new twenty-four filial piety from various channels and encourage young children to take time out as much as possible, go home to be filial and spend more time with their parents. Do filial piety at any time at ordinary times, don't just focus on the Spring Festival to get home.

The tree wants to be quiet and the wind will not stop, and the son wants to raise and the relatives are not there. The days when elderly parents can live in the world are numbered. If we don't spend more time with them, when we want to be with them, they have left alone. By that time, it will be too late for us to regret it.

Go home often. Parents, they have been waiting for us alone in their hometown.