Throwing Parents Out

Throwing Parents Out:

This short video depicts two stories of India’s elderly plight. It says abandoning the elderly is becoming more and more common in India and there are real issue for the India justice system to take cognizance of if the monumental problems that lie ahead need to be tackled, if at all. An elderly couple – who are both not well, are being pressurized by their ONLY son and daughter-in-law to leave home and just disappear from their lives. The house built with the elderly’s money, belongs to the elderly couple and not their son…

Video credit: India Today – YouTube

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The law imposing responsibility of maintenance of the parents and seniors on their children extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir and it applies also it citizens of India outside India.

Under the law:

“children” includes son, daughter, grandson and grand-daughter
“maintenance” includes provisions for food, clothing, residence and medical attendance and treatment;
“parent” means father or mother whether biological, adoptive or step father or step mother, as the case may be, whether or not the father or the mother is a senior citizen;
“property” means property of any kind, whether movable or immovable, ancestral or self acquired, tangible or intangible and includes rights or interests in such property;
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