Why do so many old people live alone? Are their children unfilial?

Not all of them. Many elderly people who live alone voluntarily stay and live alone, of course, some of them are caused by unfilial children. This problem cannot be generalized.

Due to the rapid development of cities in modern society, many young people leave their hometown to work outside to find a better way out. Once they have a stable job in a foreign city, most of their next marriage and children will live and work in that city. The children have settled in big cities outside. They think of their old father and mother who are still in their hometown, and want to take them to live in big cities to be filial, but many old people are unwilling. There are two reasons. First, old people don't want to live in big cities, saying that big cities are fast-paced, polluted and bad for their health. Big cities don't have their circle of friends, so they are lonely. Second, they don't want to disturb their children's lives. With the development of modern family thought, many old people also know to leave some space for their children's families, thinking that they are still in good health and do not need the care of their children.

At present, the main force of forming a family is mostly the only child. If parents are healthy, then a couple in a family has four elderly people in the world and children in the world to take care of, which means that two people need to take care of at least five people's daily lives, and the husband and wife have busy work and entertainment on weekdays, which is really a skill. Many young couples took the old people over and asked them to take care of their children. The old people may not want to, but they agreed because of their children's demands. Since then, they have repeated the process of raising children. I don't think this is so-called filial piety.

Although many people say that the children of the elderly living alone are unfilial, they are not all caused by unfilial reasons. Behind the elderly who live alone, there may be a family that is unknown to others, but the children are filial but unable to accompany them. Modern fast-paced society has indeed caused many elderly people to live alone, but their children are not unfilial. Maybe they miss their parents every day and insist on calling their parents every month for living expenses. Although living alone, the old man may be happy!