thin king

Is there not a way to take good care of this issue ?


From August 2008 to July this year, 172 people filed applications,
much higher than the average of 100 in previous years.

So, the act is to be tightened !
Really, is not this all very shameful ?
How do we come to this ?
Have we really look at the holistic view to deal with this issue ?

In the 1940s, the children in the only Chinese school in my village would recite the story of the crow family such that I who studied in an English school remembered the story and its moral by heart.


The story went like this:
Baby crow too young, cannot fly
Parent crow flies to bring food
and feeds baby crow
Parent crow grows old, cannot fly
Young crow flies to bring food
and feeds parent crow

I did not know Mandarin then because I studied in an English school, but there was no way I could not, after much repetition of the recitation of the story, make out what it was all about.

We are number one. We are able to teach other nations. We have the best schools. We are best in almost anything any neighbouring nation dare to compare. Sadly we have discarded parents.

There is a very old joke about the tiger trying to cure its small wound. It bit a part of itself and patched the wound. Discovering the new wound it repeated what it did, biting another part to patch the newly created wound. Anybody can figure out the outcome of the tiger.


What we need is definitely a holistic approach to this issue of parental neglect. Its fault lies not on the children alone, it is very easy to just blame it on the children.

Let us consider:
Citizens build the nation, don't they !
Citizens pay taxes, don't they !
Citizens stand shoulder to shoulder, don't they !
Citizens defend the country, don't they !
The strong rise from the weak, don't they !
The governed elected the governors, don't they !
The wealthy grow richer from what ?
Citizens grow weak and fall, don't they !

Remember the crow story, don't we !
Ron