Raising children to support oneself in old age ends up becoming a tormentor in the end. Especially for the elderly with more than two sons, their later years are nothing short of suffering. The sons take turns supporting the elderly, but there are sons who won't let them into their homes, and some even abandon the elderly on cold winter streets without care. Even when they are taken home, the elderly aren't allowed to use electricity to watch TV. As for the annual pension of a hundred or two hundred yuan, it is often withheld arbitrarily. Elderly people who have nearly lost their ability to make a living are seen by their sons and daughters-in-law as simply waiting to die.
In most cases, these are not actions taken by the sons, but rather the disgraceful behavior of the daughters-in-law. It's often said that men in Shandong province are very patriarchal, but the reality is clear: the men in our village have been coerced by women. Women treat their own parents well, but treat their in-laws like begging dogs!!! How heinous is this kind of behavior!!! To the point that in my hometown, there's a saying: "Having two daughters makes you upper class, having one son and one daughter makes you middle class, having only one son makes you lower class, and if you overproduce and have more than two sons, then you're not even considered human." This is the reality that my family has clearly told me!!!