Shared understanding as to what the role of marriage in a society is?
Analogy: in the US, the current prevailing model is to let one's elders live independently until they have to go into a group home or the hospital. It's often considered a sacrifice-- a great one-- to adult children to have to personally take care of one's parents. In other cultures, it's understood that the role of a child will be to one day care for one's aged parents.
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Date: 2011-09-28 07:32 pm (UTC)Analogy: in the US, the current prevailing model is to let one's elders live independently until they have to go into a group home or the hospital. It's often considered a sacrifice-- a great one-- to adult children to have to personally take care of one's parents. In other cultures, it's understood that the role of a child will be to one day care for one's aged parents.