Health and Beauty on Files

One morning when we were having our breakfast, just me and hubby (my older son went to work while the youngest was on his provincial hospital duty) hubby brought up this thought, he said this could be what we will gonna be when the time comes the children have their own family and leave the house, just the two of us. But I don’t think so as long as we are in the Philippines.

Filipinos are well-known to be a close-knit family. It is normal to see grown-up children over 20′s  to still living with their parents, unlike in other countries, when the son or daughter reached 18, they are expected to leave the house and live independently.

Here the parents support the children until they finished their study and earn a degree. In return the children are expected to help with the family finances or lend a hand in supporting the schooling of the younger siblings. Even if the children got married and started to raise their own family, they usually lived close by or visited the parents regularly. Grandparents are very well taken care of and were not sent to nursing homes. They will live in their homes with their children and grandchildren in their twilight years until the time they will depart from this world.

If nursing homes or home for the aged is for people from rich countries who have money and can afford to send their old family members in this lonely place, here only those that are abandoned, neglected, left alone by their relatives that need shelter and food were taken to these places to make sure they will still have a normal life even if separated from their families.

This is also one of the reasons why some Filipinos who had stayed abroad and worked there during their productive years choose to come home, retire and spend their golden years here. There is nothing like being with your own family. Life is much easier when you have your loved ones beside you.