kill for property, self or the parent

Neighbourhoods are always like a fish market, the noise of people talking like the other person is listening from the moon and children playing and shouting ( By the way I like children ) etc. But that day, there was one more addition to this noise. To know more it was obvious to see what’s the matter, I was shocked after knowing the matter and wished that I didn’t know. A mother of three sons and one daughter though her all children were married was sitting crying outside her house, the house built by her husband. Her sons were in a fight for the property, who will get the more or who will take care of the mother. It was very hurtful watching this. Due to greed of some lakhs, the mother who used to feed her children with her own hands, care them and nurture them was now a thing or to be more specific a burden on her children. I have seen this not for the first time, in many families things go wrong like this only. This is happening primarily because we live in a money-obsessed culture. “Maximizing one’s financial position is a primary motivator. The opportunity to obtain money overrides ethical behaviour around the source of the money.

The issue of inheritance and how to handle elder parent(s) is further complicated by the fact that sandwich generation children, those raised between the 1960s and the early1990’s, were taught to be independent and pave their own way. Suddenly being saddled with dependent parents and complicated caretaking responsibilities is unfamiliar territory. The total number of ageing parents needing support has increased and the amount of time that ageing parents need support has increased. Young families who rely on two-parent incomes to survive are caught off guard. There is no one, nor enough income, for parental caregiving without sacrifice. Thus, warehousing ailing parents feels like the only path to preserve inheritance and minimize the financial impact on their own families.
The experts have proffered some solutions on how to mitigate this trend and more importantly avoid these financial and emotional battles altogether. But this is not the all-round solution, parents are always depended on schools to teach their children the moral values and teach to respect other, understanding their needs too but ironically schools want the parents to teach their children these things and now the child is on itself to learn from the surrounding and since the surrounding is already money oriented so it comes up with the never-ending mindset.