I'm proud to say that we Filipinos do take care of our parents when they get older but I think it's more of we want to take care of them rather than we need to..

yeh we should do that as our religion asked us many times to be nice persons with our parents.

Hi... In my country you have the choice...

I think in all Asian and Middle-Eastern cultures it is normal and necessary for children to take care of their Parents. In the Western cultures, I guess, parents are expected to take care of themselves and children do not interfere in their parents' lives. Both have their pluses and minuses, because I have seen many Asian/Middle Eastern children using their parents as nothing but baby sitters and domestic servants. On the other hand, in the western cultures it is normal for parents to feel lonely and ignored after they get old.

In the US, they are either put in a nursing home, take care of themselves, or are taken care of by a child.