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In other cultures, elders remain with the family, which takes care of them. Consider Japan. Of course beware the generalization as there are those who don't. However on the whole it is understood that the aging parents stay with the family of first son. There is a nice change of care giving: the elders who formerly cared for the children, are now cared for. The relationships are maintained. (This extends further. There is a place in the home where urns and pictures of passed ancestors are kept and remembered, through daily acknowledgements and brief prayers, as part of the family home.) I'm sorry if I missed some of your points as I had to use a translator that could only take a few sentences at a time, so I could also not get all the way through.

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