My concern is how are people who are childfree suppose to get taken care of when they're elderly?

I myself have no children. And having kids can be really expensive and lots of commitment. One can either choose to be a parent or be childfree.





For those who choose to be childfree, I respect your choice. Don't let others put you down because of it. If being childfree makes you happy, then please go for it. But my concern is what if the childfree people need to get taken care of once they're are elderly?My concern is how are people who are childfree suppose to get taken care of when they're elderly?
They are supposed to save the money they don't spend on raising children to provide for a higher standard of living throughout their lives. Actually, even those with children are not always cared for directly by their children. Most often the children simply oversee what is going on with their parents rather than finance it. After all, they have children they are raising, and in the most expensive teen, college and young adult years when mom and dad are likely to be declining.My concern is how are people who are childfree suppose to get taken care of when they're elderly?
In Western society, especially in the USA, children do not take care of their elderly parents other than putting them into a nursing home or an assisted living, residential style program.





One do that for him or her self.





If one decides to have children simply so the same will take care of them when they become infirmed and needing of such assistance then such would be one of the worst possible reasons for having children.





It would be kinder to all concerned if you hired a care giver or bought a slave.





Children have their own lives to live as they grow and such should be a parents primary concern for their children, not shackling them emotionally into a form of bondage out of guilt.





You are correct in that one makes choices and then one must deal with the consequences of the same. Such is life and karma.





Perhaps it is wisest if one should prepare early one for the possibility to living to old age and needing care.





namaste
Having children is no guarantee you will be taken care of. Especially not the spoiled rotten, self absorbed Generation Y. Good luck to those people who are relying on their kids.





We have long term care insurance. It allows a nurse to come to your home for in-home care if needed, and offsets some of the costs of a nursing home facility. In other words, we planned ahead to have professionals take care of us instead of planning to become a burden to our families.
Well, if they have enough money, they can hire a nurse to live with them or rely on public assistance to pay for their nursing home or a nurse to visit them. My father tells me all the time to put him in a home where he can sit by a lake and fish all day. And to do this when he can't wipe his own behind anymore.
My parents had children, obviously.


They made plans for their old age and infirmity, wisely.


I did not do the first, but I did the second.





Do dogs have puppies so the puppies will grow up to take care of the elderly parent-dogs?
That's Easy: They STAY Healthy- so they can take care of THEMSELVES well into their 80's or 90's ( and keep Working %26amp; on the Tax Roles- so they can help Others ';children'; continue to get Unemployment ! And there are ALWAYS too many- of THOSE! )... :)
Yuck.





I want my children to take care of their children, not me.





Save up for the old folks home or feed yourself to a lion.


Don't burden your children.





Same goes for the Child free folk.
well, either other family will take care of you... or government gets P.O.A over you and you end up in a nursing home... depending on what kind of health you are in of course...
It's a legitimate concern.