Do rural people still talk about raising children for old age? Why?

Since ancient times, rural areas have formed a tradition of "farming for old age" and "raising children for old age", and this ideology is y rooted in the idea that children should provide for their parents' old age. But with the development of rural society, this traditional thinking is undergoing a young farmers to go out to work, "hollow village", and the strong impact of rural high consumption , is a little bit of disintegration and rupture.

Now, most of the young people in the countryside have gone out to work, and many of the migrant workers are dragging their children to the city to work, leaving behind the elderly and children in every part of the countryside. At home farming, can only barely feed the family, go out to work with a family, the pressure of life is very big, that can only send some money every month to the elderly at home to maintain life. This has become the most common phenomenon in rural life. We also went around the countryside to see, although already sixty, seventy-year-old farmers, as long as they can stand up, can walk, Elderly people still have to be in a lifetime can not be separated from the land, as far as possible, planting food, back to the point of living expenses and medical money.

Then farmers have worked hard all their lives, and what do they fear most in old age? Not only for their living expenses, hospitalization and medical treatment, but also the loneliness and isolation of old age. Farmers do a lifetime of heavy physical work, to old age, unaware of the disease, the age of a variety of accumulated diseases are beginning to gradually appear, back pain, leg pain, walking limp, crutches, serious and even paralyzed in bed, need children to take care of. However, now the rural life consumption level is also very high, all aspects of the expenditure costs are very large, children have to go out to work, such a family situation, and how to deal with it?

In this way, many poor old people have no one to take care of them, and they can only survive tenaciously like the weeds in the mountains. While the body is as dry and thin as a wood, sick and wilting lying on the dirt floor, breathless torment, rural this old age drilling pain, everyone knows, this is too poor, but what can be done? So, the rural elderly at this time, not only the most afraid of no money to see the doctor, but also afraid of no one to take care of.

Rural people work hard all their lives, hard and thrifty, to give their son a wife to buy a house and a car, they will not be able to save money, the old and no pension, in the end, fall into a no one old age, no money old age of the reality of life. If the sons and daughters are good at what they do, the old man's old age can be easier; but most of the farmer's sons are living a very ordinary life, not only in the land, but also in the spare time to go out to work, to do all the hard work to earn money, to support a family of the old and the young.

But nowadays consumption is very high, to pay for their children to go to school, buy a car and a house, how can they afford to give their parents old age? The old man eats a meager diet every day and does heavy physical farm work. Farmers often say, raise children to prevent old age, but now society has changed, the farmers are old, to make ends meet, really afraid of the lack of pension money, the lack of care. Because of the old age, the old is not useful, can not earn old age money .

Perhaps, in addition to this, farmers are most afraid of loneliness and isolation in their old age. Children are out of work, home only the old man, the health of the body is fine, but the sick, all day long, alone, the body alone, around even a talking to no one, this day is the most difficult to endure. Not only do they have to spend their time alone, but they also have to suffer from physical illnesses. Especially on New Year's Day, the old lonely figure, lonely and lonely look, as much as a bellyful of sadness and pain.

In fact, the rural elderly because there is no pension, life's sadness and grief, only they know. They are not only worried about being sick and hospitalized without money, but also the care and loneliness in their hearts. Now in the countryside, this situation is much, has become a common phenomenon.