Who will care for me? : a qualitative research on the practice of filial piety among the Malays in contemporary Singapore.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Nurlizawaty Jalil.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2010
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Communities, classes and races
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/22123
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Since its legislation in 1996, the “Maintenance of Parent Act” has received considerable attention with regard to the debate on filial obligation. With Singapore’s aging population, a decline in the informal support of the elderly is feared. The paper takes a fresh perspective of the traditional ide...