In an unprecedented move, the Chinese legislative arm has empowered elderly parents who feel frustrated and weakened by their adult children’s gross neglect by passing into law a “Parent Abandonment Bill.” Adult children are now legally required to visit their old parents and show some love, or have charges pressed against them by said parents.

Clearly, the law is a transparent reflection of the massive cultural changes taking place in this developed country, and by extension, the rest of (East) Asia. Communalism and community seem to be crumbling in favor of the fast-paced individualist lifestyle in China, while the orthodox extended family is fading, according to the Associated Press.

The time-worn tradition that had elderly parents living in the care of their adult children or other family members seems to have become old-fashioned, and nursing homes which were previously regarded as expensive or insulting, or both have now become the norm.

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